Georgia House of Representatives - 1995/1996 Sessions

HB 177 - Evidence; medical reports; authenticity and admissibility

Page Numbers - 1/ 2

Code Sections - 24-7-10

1. Klein  39th            2. Kinnamon  4th           3. Barnes  33rd
4. Campbell  42nd


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Code Sections amended: 24-7-10,                                                                     


HB 177                                             LC 9 7979






                        A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                               AN ACT


  1- 1  To amend Article 1 of Chapter 7 of Title 24 of the Official
  1- 2  Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to authentication of
  1- 3  writings in general, so as to provide for the authenticity
  1- 4  of medical reports; to provide for admissibility of such
  1- 5  medical reports; to provide for related matters; to repeal
  1- 6  conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

  1- 7       BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:

                         SECTION 1.

  1- 8  Article 1 of Chapter 7 of Title 24 of the Official Code of
  1- 9  Georgia Annotated, relating to authentication of writings in
  1-10  general, is amended by adding a new Code section at the end
  1-11  thereof to read as follows:

  1-12    "24-7-10. (Index)

  1-13    Upon the trial of any civil case involving injury or
  1-14    disease, any medical report in narrative form provided to
  1-15    the adverse party 60 days prior to trial or consented to
  1-16    by the parties, which is signed and dated by a treating
  1-17    licensed, practicing medical doctor, doctor of
  1-18    chiropractic, dentist, orthodontist, podiatrist,
  1-19    psychologist, marriage and family therapist, social
  1-20    worker, or professional counselor shall be admissible in
  1-21    evidence insofar as it purports to represent the history,
  1-22    examination, diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis of the
  1-23    person signing the report, as if that person were present
  1-24    at the hearing and testifying as a witness, subject to the
  1-25    right of any party to object to the admissibility of any
  1-26    portion of the report and subject to the right of an
  1-27    adverse party to cross-examine the person signing the
  1-28    report and provide a rebuttal testimony.  The party
  1-29    tendering the medical report may also introduce the
  1-30    testimony of the person who signed the medical report for
  1-31    the purpose of supplementing the report."





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                                                   LC 9 7979

                         SECTION 2.

  2- 1  All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are
  2- 2  repealed.













































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