HB 471 Georgia House · 2025-2026 Regular Session

Health; licensed general hospitals and birthing centers make available a water safety education video to parents or guardians of newborn infants; require

Summary

A BILL To be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 7 of Title 31 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to regulation of hospitals and related institutions, so as to require that licensed general hospitals and birthing centers make available a water safety education video to parents or guardians of newborn infants; to provide for a form; to provide for department duties; to provide for rules and regulations; to provide for a definition; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

Bill status passed 3 of 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Feb 2025

Committee Review

Mar 2026

House Passage

Mar 2025

Senate Passage

Governor

Introduced Feb 18, 2025 Last action Mar 19, 2026

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What changed between versions

LC 57 0251S/hs → LC 57 0251S/hcs · 2 edits

MINOR

The bill was converted from a House substitute version to a Committee Substitute version, which typically indicates the bill has been revised by the committee handling it. The substantive content of the bill remains unchanged, with only formatting and header information modified to reflect the committee's amendments.

TECHNICAL

Header information was updated to reflect the bill is now a Committee Substitute with specific sponsors listed (Representatives Cheokas, Dubnik, Greene, Hawkins, Barrett, and others), replacing the original House Committee offer language.

Page numbering and formatting were adjusted to align with standard committee substitute markup conventions.

Floor votes · House Mar 6, 2025

How they voted

147–0

Passed · 12 other

Total votes 159

Mar 6, 2025

D Democratic67

62 Yea 5

92% Yea

R Republican92

85 Yea 7

92% Yea

Vote distribution

All Yea All Nay Mixed No data

Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions

Key actions

Committee

Mar 19, 2026

Upper · Passed

Senate Committee Favorably Reported

upper

Jan 12, 2026

Committee

Senate Recommitted

upper

Mar 21, 2025

Upper · Passed

Senate Committee Favorably Reported

upper

Mar 10, 2025

Committee

Senate Read and Referred

upper

Mar 6, 2025

Lower · Passed

House Passed/Adopted By Substitute

lower

Feb 27, 2025

Lower · Passed

House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute

lower

Feb 18, 2025

Introduced

House Hopper

lower

6 primary · 0 co-sponsors