HB 1069: Public Health, Department of; publish and maintain statistical reports relating to induced terminations of pregnancy notwithstanding requirements on the department for physician confidentiality; require

Georgia law currently requires abortion providers to report each induced termination of pregnancy to the Department of Public Health within ten days, but several other code sections protect the confidentiality of physicians and facilities involved. This bill adds a new subsection to that reporting law (O.C.G.A. § 31-10-19) requiring the department to publish statistics on its website about induced terminations of pregnancy, overriding confidentiality protections found in three other Code sections. Starting July 1, 2026, the department would have to post updated data at least once a year, broken down by year, county, age, race, and ethnicity, going back to 1994. The bill requires this published information to comply with the federal health privacy law known as HIPAA and bars the department from posting anything that could reasonably identify an individual woman or a woman under guardianship or conservatorship.

• Adds a new subsection (b) to O.C.G.A. § 31-10-19 requiring the Department of Public Health to publish statistics on induced terminations of pregnancy on its website.
• Overrides confidentiality protections in three other Code sections (16-12-141.1, 31-9A-6, and 31-9B-3) specifically for this reporting requirement.
• Sets a starting date of July 1, 2026 for the publication requirement, with data required to be updated at least annually.
• Requires the published data to cover the number of terminations from 1994 onward, broken down by year, county, age, race, and ethnicity.
• Requires the department to keep the published data compliant with the federal HIPAA privacy law and to avoid posting information that could identify any individual woman or ward.

The Department of Public Health, which must build and maintain the new public reports; abortion providers, clinics, and physicians who already file termination reports; and women who obtain abortions in Georgia, whose aggregated but anonymized data would become part of the published statistics.

If enacted, Georgians and researchers would gain public access to detailed, decades-long statistics on abortions performed in the state, broken down by location and demographics, information that is not currently required to be published in this form due to existing confidentiality rules for medical providers.

• Section 1 amends O.C.G.A. § 31-10-19 to add subsection (b), the new publication requirement, while keeping the existing ten-day reporting rule in subsection (a) unchanged.
• The new subsection specifically overrides confidentiality provisions in O.C.G.A. §§ 16-12-141.1(i), 31-9A-6(h), and 31-9B-3(c) for purposes of this reporting.
• Data must be presented in tabular, mapped, charted, or other appropriate form and updated at least annually starting July 1, 2026.
• Required data categories include year, county, age, race, and ethnicity, starting from 1994.
• The department must ensure compliance with the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and prevent identification of any individual woman, including those with a guardian or conservator.
• Section 2 repeals any conflicting laws.

1. 2026-02-02House Second Readers (House)
2. 2026-01-29House First Readers (House)
3. 2026-01-28House Hopper (House)

• Emory Dunahoo (R, HD-031)Primary sponsor
• Kasey Carpenter (R, HD-004)
• Tyler Smith (R, HD-018)
• Mitchell Horner (R, HD-003)
• Mitchell Scoggins (R, HD-014)
• Martin Momtahan (R, HD-017)

• abortion reporting
• public health data
• medical privacy
• vital records
• reproductive health statistics