Georgia Code
Chapter 32 - Advance Directives for Health Care
§ 31-32-12. Restriction on Requiring and Preparing Advance Directives for Health Care

History. Code 1981, § 31-32-12 , enacted by Ga. L. 2007, p. 133, § 2/HB 24; Ga. L. 2017, p. 164, § 57/HB 127; Ga. L. 2022, p. 611, § 2-15/HB 752.
The 2017 amendment, effective July 1, 2017, substituted “or self-insured employee welfare benefit plan” for “self-insured employee welfare benefit plan, or nonprofit hospital service plan” near the middle of subsection (a).
The 2022 amendment, effective July 1, 2022, in the first sentence in subsection (b), substituted “A health care facility shall only be authorized to” for “No health care facility shall” at the beginning, substituted “if specifically” for “unless specifically”, and added “or, if such health care facility’s offer is not coercive in nature and such person consents to such offer” at the end.

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