HB 620 Georgia House · 2025-2026 Regular Session

State holidays; Blood Plasma Donation Awareness Day; designate

Summary

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 4 of Title 1 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to holidays and observances, so as to designate Blood Plasma Donation Awareness Day in Georgia; to provide for legislative findings; to provide for related matters; to provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

Bill status died 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Feb 2025

Committee Review

Floor Vote

Governor

Introduced Feb 26, 2025 Last action Feb 11, 2026

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What changed between versions

LC 57 0244/a → LC 64 0058S/hs · 3 edits

MINOR

This bill designates February 17 as Blood Plasma Donation Awareness Day in Georgia. A substitute version was introduced that updated the legislative findings to reflect more accurate data, corrected a typo regarding the year of donation statistics, and changed the effective date of the law from July 1, 2025, to July 1, 2026.

TIMELINE

The effective date for the new holiday was delayed from July 1, 2025, to July 1, 2026.

TECHNICAL

A factual error in the original text was corrected, changing the reported year of plasma donations from 2001 to 2021.

The bill title was updated to indicate it is a substitute version (HB 620 (SUB)) rather than the original draft.

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Committee

Feb 11, 2026

Lower · Passed

House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute

lower

Apr 4, 2025

Committee

House Withdrawn, Recommitted

lower

Mar 3, 2025

Lower · Passed

House Committee Favorably Reported

lower

Feb 26, 2025

Introduced

House Hopper

lower

6 primary · 0 co-sponsors