Certificate of Need; health care facilities, services, and equipment dedicated exclusively to the treatment of cancer; provide for exemption

What it does

The legislature's own summary of the bill, or its official long title.

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 31-6-47 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to exemptions from certificate of need requirements, so as to provide an exemption for health care facilities, services, and equipment dedicated exclusively to the treatment of cancer; to provide for conditions; to provide for applicability; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

Every action

10 steps, oldest first, as the legislature records them.

1. Mar 28, 2025SenateSenate Hopper
2. Mar 28, 2025CommitteeSenate Read and Referred · Senate Regulated Industries and Utilities
3. Mar 3, 2026CommitteeSenate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute · Senate Regulated Industries and Utilities
4. Mar 4, 2026SenateSenate Read Second Time
5. Mar 6, 2026SenateSenate Tabled
6. Mar 6, 2026SenateSenate Taken from Table
7. Mar 6, 2026SenateSenate Third Read
8. Mar 6, 2026SenateSenate Passed/Adopted By Substitute
9. Mar 9, 2026CommitteeHouse First Readers · House Health
10. Mar 10, 2026HouseHouse Second Readers

Roll calls

1 recorded vote: 1 on the floor, 0 in committee. Each shows how every member voted.

Sponsors

The member who introduced it, joined by 7 cosponsors: 6 Republicans, 1 Democrat.

• Bill CowsertR Primary sponsor · District 46