O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 43-26-55 (2019)

Immunity from liability for good-faith reporting

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)
Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.
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(a) No nurse, hospital, nursing home, temporary staffing agency, employer, state agency, or other person required to report a nurse to the board under this article, who, in good faith, either reports or fails to report, shall be subject to civil or criminal liability or discipline for unprofessional conduct for such action or inaction.

(b) A physician or other licensed health care professional who, at the request of the board, examines a nurse shall be immune from suit for damages by the nurse examined if the examining physician or examining health care professional conducted the examination and made findings or diagnoses in good faith.

History

Code 1981, § 43-26-55, enacted by Ga.

L. 2013, p. 830, § 4/HB 315; Ga. L. 2014, p. 866, § 43/SB 340.

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Annotations

Editor’s notes. Ga. L. 2017, p. 364, § 3/SB 109 provides that this article becomes effective on the earlier date of legislative enactment of

this compact into law by no less than twenty-six states or December 31, 2018. The requisite number of states approved this compact on July 20, 2017.