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Primary Content Caption As the 2021 legislative session ended, Georgia lawmakers wound up not passing a bill to allow visits by a “legal representative’’ to patients in hospitals and nursing homes during a health emergency. Credit: Stephen Fowler/GPB file photo As the 2021 legislative session ended, Georgia lawmakers wound up not passing a bill to allow visits by a “legal representative’’ to patients in hospitals and nursing homes during a health emergency. The legislation ping-ponged Wednesday between the two chambers, with the House supporting its previous, stronger version, and the Senate holding firm to its own stripped-down revision. The legislation, in its original form, would have required hospitals and long-term care facilities to allow a legal representative, typically a family member, to visit a patient or resident for at least one hour a day during a designated health emergency like the pandemic.

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