Health & Human Services

GA - Representative Sharon Cooper (R)

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Chairman

GA - Representative Ben Watson (R)

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Vice Chairman

GA - Representative Ed Rynders (R)

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Secretary

GA - Representative Timothy Barr (R)

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Member

GA - Representative James Beverly (D)

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Member

GA - Representative Bruce Broadrick (R)

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Member

GA - Representative Mickey Channell (R)

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Member

GA - Representative Mike Cheokas (R)

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Member

GA - Representative Josh Clark (R)

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Member

GA - Representative Valerie Clark (R)

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Member

GA - Representative Katie Dempsey (R)

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Member

GA - Representative Karla Drenner (D)

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Member

GA - Representative Carol Fullerton (D)

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Member

GA - Representative J. Craig Gordon (D)

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Member

GA - Representative Buddy Harden (R)

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Member

GA - Representative Matt Hatchett (R)

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Member

GA - Representative Lee Hawkins (R)

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Member

GA - Representative Michele Henson (D)

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Member

GA - Representative Doug Holt (R)

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Member

GA - Representative Henry "Wayne" Howard (D)

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Member

GA - Representative Rick Jasperse (R)

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Member

GA - Representative Sheila Jones (D)

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Member

GA - Representative Margaret D. Kaiser (D)

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Member

GA - Representative E. Culver "Rusty" Kidd (I)

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Member

GA - Representative Billy Mitchell (D)

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Member

GA - Representative Alisha Thomas Morgan (D)

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Member

GA - Representative Howard Mosby (D)

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Member

GA - Representative B.J. Pak (R)

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Member

GA - Representative Don Parsons (R)

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Member

GA - Representative Allen Peake (R)

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Member

GA - Representative Jimmy Pruett (R)

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Member

GA - Representative Nikki T. Randall (D)

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Member

GA - Representative Carl Rogers (R)

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Member

GA - Representative Dexter Sharper (D)

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Member

GA - Representative Barbara Sims (R)

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Member

GA - Representative Mickey Stephens (D)

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Member

GA - Representative Pam Stephenson (D)

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Member

GA - Representative Joe Wilkinson (R)

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Member

GA - SB273 Public Health, Dept. of; required to establish the Maternal Mortality Review Committee to review maternal deaths

GA - HB885 Medical cannabis; continuing research into benefits to treat certain conditions; provisions

GA - HR502 Joint Study Committee on Mental Health and School Violence; create

GA - HB413 Pharmacy benefits managers; define "maximum allowable cost"; provisions

GA - HR49 Congress; pass legislation restoring the deep cuts to mental health services; request

GA - HB50 Nurses; mandatory reporting; require

GA - HB279 State health planning and development; physician owned ambulatory surgical centers; define and provide exemptions

GA - HB192 Podiatry; podiatric medicine includes the diagnosis and treatment of cosmetic conditions regarding the human foot and leg; provide

GA - HB461 Assistance; single administrator for dental services for Medicaid recipients and PeachCare for Kids participants; provide

GA - HB676 Physician assistants; physicians to delegate authority to prescribe Schedule II controlled substances; authorize

GA - HB611 Health; mammogram report to patients with dense breast tissue; provide certain notice

GA - HB853 Mental health facilities; certificate of need; revise exemption

GA - SB10 Registered Professional Nurses; provide continuing competency requirements as a requirement for license renewal

GA - HB546 Public Health, Department of; pilot program to assess need for and effectiveness of using protocol technicians in areas which do not have access to a hospital; establish

GA - HB721 Georgia Composite Medical Board; release of certain correspondence and documents; provide

GA - HR914 Reproductive freedom; recognize need for state and federal funds to facilitate safer environment for mothers and children; request support

GA - HB280 Georgia State Board of Pharmacy; powers, duties, and authority; revise

GA - HB315 Nurses; continuing competency requirements as requirement for license renewal; provide

GA - SR413 Advance Directive for Health Care; urge adult citizens; appoint health care agent; treatment preferences

GA - SB85 Physicians; authorize the administration of vaccines by pharmacists or nurses; vaccine protocol agreements

GA - SB13 Nurses; require mandatory reporting

GA - HB971 Consumer Information and Awareness Act; enact

GA - HB511 State employees' health insurance plan; pilot program to provide coverage for bariatric surgical procedures for treatment and management of obesity; provide

GA - HB839 Senior Citizens Services Authorities Act; enact

GA - SB94 Advanced Practice Registered Nurses; delegation of authority to order radiographic imaging tests; revise prov.

GA - HB205 Psychiatric Advance Directive Act; enact

GA - HR760 Congress; oppose new tax on Medicare Prescription Drug Plan; request

GA - HR1100 Youth violence; public health epidemic and supporting statewide trauma-informed education; declare

GA - SB342 Evidence; disclosure of a person's HIV status to certain health care providers

GA - HB513 Georgia Medical Center Authority; abolish

GA - SB216 Pharmacies; provide that medical director of an emergency service provider may contract with more than one pharmacy

GA - HR869 State government agencies; problem of untreated and undertreated chronic pain; recognize

GA - HB209 Pharmacists and pharmacies; revise definition of "security paper"; revise requirements

GA - HB428 Foster Children's Psychotropic Medication Monitoring Act; enact

GA - HR280 Governor; expand Medicaid coverage under Affordable Care Act; urge

GA - HB1119 Medical assistance; appropriations for obtaining federal financial participation for payments to providers of Medicaid expansion under federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010; provide authorization

GA - HB178 Georgia Pain Management Clinic Act; enact

GA - HB608 Community Health, Department of; criminal background check requirements for applicants for employment by certain licensed facilities; expand

GA - SB358 Missing Children Information Center; provide missing child reports for foster children

GA - HB332 Georgia Board of Nursing; reconstitute; provisions

GA - HR826 House Human Embryonic Research Study Committee; create

GA - HB966 Pharmacies; licensed health practitioners prescribe opioid antagonists to certain individuals and entities pursuant to a protocol; provisions

GA - HB894 Continuing care providers and facilities; provide for continuing care at home; provisions

GA - HB48 Georgia's Return to Play Act of 2013; enact

GA - HB998 Medical scholarships; revise provisions relating to scholarships and loans

GA - HB1107 Therapeutic Cannabidiol Act of 2014; enact

GA - HB208 Nursing homes; annually offer influenza vaccinations to health care workers and other employees; require

GA - HR1528 Georgia Rural Medical Care Joint Study Committee; create

GA - HR76 Government; action to help lift women out of poverty; encourage

GA - HR74 Health; development of minority owned plasma centers; encourage

GA - SB268 Physician Assistants; authorize a physician to delegate a physician assistant the authority to prescribe Schedule II controlled substances

GA - HB606 Private home care providers; revise definition to exclude contractual arrangements with independent contractors

GA - SR981 Violence Against Health Care Workers; create joint study committee

GA - HR228 Congress of the United States; pass legislation restoring deep cuts to mental health services, research, special education, and supportive housing for children and adults living with mental health; request

GA - HB240 Medicaid and PeachCare for Kids; certain speech-language pathology services; require reimbursement

GA - HB317 Medical Practice Act of the State of Georgia; administrative medicine licenses; provide

GA - HB899 Unlicensed personal care homes; criminal penalties for owning or operating; provide

GA - HB1081 Physicians; authorize administration of vaccines by pharmacists or nurses pursuant to vaccine protocol agreements with physicians; provisions

GA - HB910 Community Health, Department of; authorize medical-legal partnerships; provisions

GA - HR871 Adult citizens; consider preparing advance directive for health care that appoints their health case agent and states their treatment preferences; request

GA - HR1829 Department of Community Health and Department of Public Health; collaborate and develop report of Georgia's strategic action steps to prevent and control diabetes; encourage

GA - HB363 Georgia Lactation Consultant Practice Act; enact

GA - HB1057 Local government; no county, municipal corporation, or public authority shall introduce into a public water supply any chemical or agent not directly related to purification process; provide

GA - SB163 Community Health, Dept. of; required to study and identify options for Medicaid reform

GA - SB304 Continuing Care Providers and Facilities; provide for continuing care at home; define certain terms

GA - HB404 Freestanding pediatric emergency facilities; certificate of need requirements; exempt

GA - SB391 Health; provide that each medical facility make a good faith application; TRICARE network

GA - SB352 Georgia Council on Lupus Education and Awareness; create

GA - HB68 Physicians; continuing education requirements licensed to practice orthotics or prosthetics; revise provisions

GA - SB65 Mental Health; authorize licensed professional counselor to perform certain acts; secure certification

GA - HB695 Public assistance; provide reimbursement for Medicaid providers; provisions

GA - HR603 Community Health, Department of; collect and report certain data relating to bariatric surgical procedures; direct