HB1069: HB1069 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 already requires abortion providers to report each induced termination of pregnancy to the Department of Public Health within ten days. This bill changes what the department must do with that information. It requires the department to publish statistics on its website, or link to a website with the data, showing induced termination of pregnancy numbers going back to 1994, broken down by year, county, age, race, and ethnicity. The bill overrides existing confidentiality provisions in three other Georgia code sections that currently limit what the department can release about physicians and providers, stating those provisions do not block this new public reporting requirement. The data must still comply with the federal medical privacy law known as HIPAA, and the department must make sure nothing it posts could identify any individual woman or any woman who has a guardian or conservator. The reporting requirement and website publication start July 1, 2026.

• Requires the Department of Public Health to publish statistics on induced terminations of pregnancy on its website or through a linked website, updated at least once a year.
• Requires the published data to include counts broken down by year (starting from 1994), county, age, race, and ethnicity.
• Overrides conflicting confidentiality language in three other Georgia code sections (O.C.G.A. §§ 16-12-141.1, 31-9A-6, and 31-9B-3) so the department can publish this data.
• Requires the department to keep the published information compliant with the federal HIPAA medical privacy law.
• Requires the department to ensure no posted information could reasonably identify any individual woman or any woman with an appointed guardian or conservator.
• Sets the new reporting and publication requirement to take effect July 1, 2026.

The Department of Public Health, which must build and maintain the public reporting system; hospitals, clinics, and physicians who currently report induced pregnancy terminations and whose confidentiality protections are narrowed for this purpose; and women whose termination data feeds into the statistics, though the bill requires their identities be protected.

Georgians and researchers would gain public access to detailed, ongoing data on induced pregnancy terminations broken down by location and demographics, information not currently published this way. The change also narrows existing legal confidentiality protections that had limited what the department could release about providers and facilities.

• Section 1 revises O.C.G.A. § 31-10-19, which governs reporting of induced terminations of pregnancy to the Department of Public Health.
• Subsection (a) keeps the existing requirement that each termination be reported to the department within ten days by the facility or attending physician.
• Subsection (b) adds the new publication mandate, requiring statistics dating back to 1994 broken down by year, county, age, race, and ethnicity, updated at least annually starting July 1, 2026.
• Subsection (b) explicitly states this publication requirement applies notwithstanding confidentiality provisions in O.C.G.A. §§ 16-12-141.1(i), 31-9A-6(h), and 31-9B-3(c).
• Subsection (b) requires compliance with the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and bars posting information that could identify any individual woman.
• 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
• reproductive health policy
• government transparency
• vital records