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GA SB539
Bill
Status
Passed
5/9/2022
Primary Sponsor
Bo Hatchett
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AI Summary
- Amends Georgia Code Section 16-11-62 to make it unlawful to knowingly photograph or record the activities of patients in a facility operated by a county board of health (created pursuant to Code Section 31-3-1) without the consent of all patients observed
- Existing exceptions still apply, including recording of incarcerated persons, security/crime prevention use by property owners, surveillance within a resident's curtilage, and law enforcement use in the lawful performance of official duties
- Adds the new patient-recording prohibition as paragraph (7) to the existing list of unlawful eavesdropping, surveillance, and privacy invasion offenses under Georgia's wiretapping and surveillance statute
- Renumbers the existing catch-all provision (prohibiting similar privacy-invading acts) from paragraph (7) to paragraph (8) to accommodate the new provision
Legislative Description
Wiretapping, Eavesdropping, Surveillance; use of any device to photograph or record patients in a health care facility shall be unlawful; provide
Last Action
Effective Date 2022-07-01
5/9/2022
Committee Referrals
Judiciary - Non-Civil3/16/2022
Health and Human Services2/24/2022
Full Bill Text
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