Health & Human Services

GA - Representative Sharon Cooper (R)

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Chairman

GA - Representative Lee Hawkins (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 Karen Bennett (D)

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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 - (until 09/19/2017)

GA - Representative Katie M. Dempsey (R)

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Member

GA - Representative Demetrius Douglas (D)

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Member

GA - Representative Karla Drenner (D)

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Member

GA - Representative Spencer Frye (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 Michele Henson (D)

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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 Trey Kelley (R)

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Member

GA - Representative Jodi Lott (R)

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Member

GA - Representative Billy Mitchell (D)

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Member

GA - Representative Howard Mosby (D)

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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 Jesse Petrea (R)

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Member

GA - Representative John David Pezold (R)

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Member

GA - Representative Betty Price (R)

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Member

GA - Representative Jimmy Pruett (R)

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Member

GA - Representative Dexter Sharper (D)

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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 - HB362 Student health; licensed health practitioners to prescribe albuterol sulfate for schools; authorize

GA - HR826 Congress of the United States, National Institutes of Health and its National Cancer Institute; increase funding for childhood cancer research and to continue their support for pediatric clinical trials in Georgia; urge

GA - HR828 House Study Committee on the Provision of Indigent and Charity Health Care Services; create

GA - HR829 House Welfare Fraud Study Committee; create

GA - HB47 Prescription drugs; certain refills of topical ophthalmic products under certain conditions; authorize

GA - HB53 Clinical laboratories; person consenting to provision of medical or surgical care by health care provider operates as consent for provider to perform HIV test; provide

GA - HB692 Mental health; marriage and family therapists to perform certain acts regarding emergency examinations of persons for involuntary evaluation and treatment for mental illness or alcohol or drug abuse; authorize

GA - HB695 Health; provide for office based surgery procedures; provisions

GA - HB34 "Georgia Right to Try Act"; enact

GA - HR612 House Study Committee on Fibroids Education and Awareness; create

GA - HB179 Pain management clinics; health care professionals who must be on-site for the clinic to provide medical treatment or services; revise a provision

GA - HB705 Mental health; require care provider to provide periodic opportunities for a patient to designate a family member or other individual as a person with whom the provider may discuss the patient's medical condition and treatment plan; provisions

GA - HB886 Pharmacy licenses; employing mails or common carriers to sell, distribute, and deliver prescription drugs; revise a provision

GA - SB273 Clinical Laboratories; provide certain nondiagnostic laboratories not subject to state licensure as clinical laboratory

GA - HB900 Crimes and offenses; electronic data base of prescription information; authorize the retention of data base information for 2 years; provisions

GA - HB902 Hospitals and related institutions; educational information on influenza disease to residents of assisted living communities; provide

GA - HB897 Health; care and protection of indigent and elderly patients; provide for the establishment and operation of a drug repository program to accept and dispense unused prescription drugs

GA - HR1254 Medicaid care management organizations; cover certain attention deficit hyperactivity disorder medications; encourage

GA - HB944 Health; pronouncement of death of patients in nursing homes who are organ donors by a physician assistant or registered professional nurse; provide

GA - HB954 "Uniform Adult Guardianship and Protective Proceedings Jurisdiction Act"; enact

GA - HB1043 Vaccine protocol agreements; influenza; exempt activities conducted by a hospital or health system from certain requirements

GA - HB1037 Community Health, Department of; certified nurse aide registry to nurse aides who provide services in private residences; expand

GA - SB305 Health; Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment form; require department to provide certain notification prior to modification

GA - SB337 Medical Assistance; require Department of Human Services to provide certain dependents of military service member; eligibility

GA - HB1087 Public assistance; legislative notification prior to any request for a state plan amendment for an increase in eligibility; require

GA - SB271 Mental Health; provide reasonable standards for providing patients notice; admission to an emergency receiving facility

GA - HB1068 "Postpartum Depression Act"; enact

GA - HB1075 Commerce and trade; transmission of another person's medical information shall be deemed an unfair and deceptive trade practice; provide

GA - HB1071 Domestic relations; signs to be posted at certain medical facilities where a newborn child may be left; provide

GA - SB385 Physicians; provide for certain requirements for advertisement or publication of representation of board certification by physicians

GA - SB389 Social Services; temporary assistance for needy families; provide for exception to lifetime maximum assistance

GA - HB399 County and municipal hospital authorities; revise various requirements and provisions

GA - HB416 Consumer Information and Awareness Act; enact

GA - HB407 Pain management clinics; Opioid Education and Pro-Active Addiction Counseling for patients prescribed Schedule II or III controlled substances for chronic pain for extended periods; require

GA - HB649 "Georgia Lactation Consultant Practice Act"; enact

GA - HR745 United States Congress; provide for continuation of Ryan White CARE Act funding at levels appropriate to meet the needs of the citizens of the State of Georgia; encourage

GA - HR746 Georgia families; public policies that help them thrive; express the sense of the General Assembly

GA - HR767 House Study Committee on Provision of Community Based Intellectual and Developmental Disability (IDD) services, including the NOW/COMP Medicaid Waiver Services; create

GA - HB684 Dental hygienists; delegable services and procedures that may be performed by hygienists; provide

GA - HB700 Therapy; services under Medicaid for children with disabilities; revise provisions

GA - HB511 Pharmacists and pharmacies; technicians to fill remote automated medication systems in skilled nursing facilities and hospices; authorize

GA - HB509 Georgia Palliative Care and Quality of Life Advisory Council; create; provisions

GA - SB131 Department of Behavorial Health and Developmental Disabilities; provide for certification; policies and procedures

GA - HB537 Medical assistance; provide single administrator for dental services for Medicaid recipients and PeachCare for Kids participants; provisions

GA - HB562 Polysomnography Practice Act; enact

GA - HB569 Pharmacists and pharmacies; licensure of durable medical equipment suppliers; provide

GA - HB564 Medical practice; physicians complete continuing education training on prescribing controlled substances and the development of addiction; require

GA - SB114 Advanced Practice Registered Nurses; number of advanced practice registered nurses a delegating physician enter a protocol agreement; provisions

GA - HR640 Joint Study Committee on Health, Education, and School-Based Health Centers; create

GA - HR641 Joint Study Committee on Children's Mental Health; create

GA - HB588 Controlled substances; possession of substances containing ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, and phenylpropanolamine and restrictions of sale of products containing pseudoephedrine; change provisions

GA - HB780 Health; certain nondiagnostic laboratories not subject to state licensure as a clinical laboratory; provide

GA - HB783 Controlled substances; Schedules I and IV; change certain provisions

GA - HB716 Professional counseling; person shall not engage in sexual orientation change efforts with a person under 18 years of age; provide

GA - HB852 "Bridging the Military Health Care Gap Act"; enact

GA - HB853 "Coverdell-Murphy Act"; update current system of levels of certified stroke centers to reflect advances in stroke treatments and therapy; provisions

GA - SB230 'Uniform Emergency Volunteer Health Practitioners Act'; enactment

GA - HB926 Pharmacists and pharmacies; regulation of certain facilities and entities involved in the wholesale, manufacture, and distribution of drugs; provide

GA - HB916 "The Pharmacy Audit Bill of Rights"; certain audits conducted by the Department of Community Health; remove exception; provisions

GA - HB910 Health records; provisions relating to costs of copying and mailing patient records apply to psychiatric, psychological, and other mental health records; provide

GA - HB915 Social services; criminal records checks shall be required for owners and employees of certain licensed facilities; establish

GA - SB308 Positive Alternatives for Pregnancy and Parenting Grant Program; establish; definitions; administration and duties

GA - HB1006 "Georgia State Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)"; require additional information regarding participants for annual report

GA - SB115 Physician Assistants; authorize a physician to delegate to physician assistant the authority to prescribe Schedule II controlled substances

GA - HR1382 Community Health, Department of; create and seek the counsel of a State Health Benefit Plan Customer Advisory Council; encourage

GA - SB314 Nurses; advanced nursing practices; revise certain provisions; provide for changes to roles and definitions

GA - HB1058 Health; HIV and AIDS; revise various statutes

GA - HB1091 State Commission on Narcotic Treatment Programs; create

GA - HB1160 Medical assistance; legislative notification prior to the submission of certain waivers pursuant to Section 1332 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; require

GA - HB349 Physicians assistants; physicians to delegate authority to prescribe Schedule II controlled substances under certain conditions; authorize

GA - HB350 Dental hygienists; administer local anesthesia under direct supervision of a dentist; authorize

GA - SB51 Pharmacists and Pharmacies; provide for substitutions of interchangeable biological products

GA - HB395 Professions and businesses; provide definition for term psychological testing; provisions

GA - HB394 Georgia Board of Nursing; revise provisions relating to powers and duties; provisions

GA - HR805 House Study Committee on the Certificate of Need Program; create

GA - HB436 Georgia HIV/Syphilis Pregnancy Screening Act of 2015; enact

GA - HR787 Governor Nathan Deal; establish Diabetes Control Grant Advisory Board; encourage

GA - HB505 Physical therapists; licensure and regulations of therapists and therapy assistants; revise various provisions

GA - HB504 Health; vaccination against meningococcal disease of college students; revise provisions

GA - HB501 Health care data system; authority of Department of Community Health to use existing systems in establishing and operating a state-wide health care data system; remove

GA - HB491 Public Health, Department of; provide immunity from liability; provisions

GA - HB105 Health; vaccination against meningococcal disease of college students; revise provisions

GA - HB155 Health; registration with the vaccination registry by persons who administer vaccines and by pharmacies, agencies, or businesses employing persons who administer vaccines; require

GA - HB195 Pharmacists and pharmacies; substitutions of interchangeable biological products; provide

GA - HB183 Home Care Patient Protection Act; enact

GA - HB212 Pain management clinics; health care professionals who must be on-site for the clinics to provide medical treatment or services; revise a provision

GA - HB240 Community Health, Department of; provide that at least two members of board shall also be members of state health plan; provisions

GA - HB247 Mental health facilities; certificate of need requirements; revise an exemption

GA - HB248 Behavioral Health and Development Disabilities, Department of; regulation and licensure of short-term mental health facilities; provide

GA - HB249 Health; certificate of need program; repeal

GA - HB288 Behavioral Health Coordinating Council; two additional members to serve on council; provide

GA - SB53 Mental Health; authorizing licensed professional counselor to perform certain acts; revise sunset prov.; repeal in its entirety June 30, 2018

GA - HB321 Health records; revise provisions regarding imposition of costs for providing copies; provisions

GA - HB324 Health; mammogram report to patients with dense breast tissue; require certain notice

GA - HR302 Congress of the United States; enact significant reforms to nation's federally financed graduate medical education programs and to provide states with additional resources to meet the health workforce needs of the future; urge

GA - SB126 Pharmacists and Pharmacies; expansion of certain medical professionals to prescribe auto-injectable epinephrine to authorized entity; emergency purposes

GA - SB109 Health; clarify the use and effectiveness of Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment forms

GA - SB194 Pharmacists and Pharmacies; certain provisions shall not apply; facility engaged solely in the distribution of dialysate, drugs; patients with end stage renal disease

GA - HB611 Health; landlord to disclose evidence of mold to a tenant; require

GA - HB813 Pharmacists and pharmacies; expedited partner therapy; provisions

GA - HB810 Health; imposition of costs for providing copies of health records; revise provisions

GA - HB826 Medical practice; physicians; provide for certain requirements for advertisement or publication of representations of board certification