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Read. Follow. Verify.Georgia requires healthcare providers to share psychiatric and clinical records with the Maternal Mortality Review Committee
Last action · May 1, 2025: House Date Signed by GovernorSponsors: Sharon Cooper and 4 others
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What This Bill Does
Georgia law now requires healthcare providers, facilities, and pharmacies to supply the Maternal Mortality Review Committee with relevant medical and psychiatric records within 30 days of a request. The measure also establishes a Advisory Committee to assess regional maternity care and removes the requirement that medical examiner inquiries for certain pregnant female deaths go through a regional perinatal center.
Medical professionals and healthcare facilities face new statutory mandates and timelines for disclosing patient records for mortality reviews, while gaining civil and criminal immunity for good-faith disclosures.
- The Maternal Mortality Review Committee operates within the Georgia Department of Public Health to examine pregnancy-associated deaths and recommend preventative interventions. context
Who It Affects
Groups the bill's text affects, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Healthcare providers, facilities, and pharmacies
Must provide clinical and psychiatric records to the Maternal Mortality Review Committee within 30 days while receiving immunity protections for good faith disclosures.
Maternal Mortality Review Committee
Gains explicit statutory authority to access psychiatric records and deceased patient records within 30 days for case reviews.
Regional perinatal centers
Subject to periodic quadrennial assessments, evaluations, and potential structural adjustments coordinated by the department and advisory committee.
Key Facts
- Licensed healthcare providers, facilities, and pharmacies must provide reasonable access to relevant medical and psychiatric records to the Maternal Mortality Review Committee within 30 days of a request.
- Providers and facilities disclosing records in good faith are granted immunity from civil damages, criminal action, and disciplinary proceedings.
- A new Regional Perinatal Center Advisory Committee is established to advise the Department of Public Health commissioner on adding, reducing, or transitioning regional perinatal centers.
- The advisory committee shall have between 11 and 21 members appointed by the commissioner for four-year terms, with one member appointed as chairperson.
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- Beginning July 1, 2026, and every four years thereafter, the Department of Public Health and the advisory committee must assess regional perinatal system adequacy and report on labor and delivery closures.
- The Department of Public Health must present a quadrennial plan starting July 1, 2026, to the Governor, Speaker of the House, and President of the Senate concerning designated perinatal centers.
- Clinical records of deceased patients may now be released to or in response to a valid subpoena of the Maternal Mortality Review Committee.
- The requirement that a medical examiner's inquiry for pregnant female deaths be conducted through a regional perinatal center is removed.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
Current status: Signed into law.
Procedural history
17 actions- Jul 1, 2025Georgia General AssemblyEffective Date
- May 1, 2025HouseEnrolledHouse Date Signed by Governor
- May 1, 2025GovernorEnrolledAct 43
- Apr 7, 2025HouseHouse Sent to Governor
- Mar 18, 2025SenateSenate Third Read
- Mar 18, 2025SenateFloorSenate Passed/Adopted
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- Mar 13, 2025SenateSenate Read Second Time
- Mar 11, 2025SenateCommitteeSenate Committee Favorably Reported
- Mar 4, 2025SenateIntroducedSenate Read and Referred
- Mar 3, 2025HouseHouse Third Readers
- Mar 3, 2025HouseFloorHouse Passed/Adopted By Substitute
- Feb 26, 2025HouseCommitteeHouse Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute
- Feb 20, 2025HouseHouse Withdrawn, Recommitted
- Jan 29, 2025HouseCommitteeHouse Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute
- Jan 27, 2025HouseHouse Second Readers
- Jan 17, 2025HouseIntroducedHouse First Readers
- Jan 16, 2025HouseIntroducedHouse Hopper
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4 versions on fileLobbying Activity
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Enforcement of Record Sharing for Maternal Mortality
Shifts maternal mortality reviews from relying on voluntary or protracted record retrieval to a strict 30-day statutory mandate backed by good-faith liability protections.
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Sources
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- Controversy15Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
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