Health & Human Services

GA - Representative Sharon Cooper (R)

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Chairman

GA - Representative Mark Newton (R)

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Vice Chairman

GA - Representative Houston Gaines (R)

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Secretary

GA - Representative Timothy Barr (R)

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Member

GA - Representative Matt Barton (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 Mike Cheokas (R)

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Member

GA - Representative Katie 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 Matt Hatchett (R)

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Member

GA - Representative Lee Hawkins (R)

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Member

GA - Representative Don Hogan (R)

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Member

GA - Representative Henry "Wayne" Howard (D)

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Member

GA - Representative Shelly Hutchinson (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 John LaHood (R)

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Member

GA - Representative Jodi Lott (R)

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Member

GA - Representative Karen Mathiak (R)

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Member

GA - Representative Billy Mitchell (D)

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Member

GA - Representative Don Parsons (R)

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Member

GA - Representative Jesse Petrea (R)

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Member

GA - Representative Kim Schofield (D)

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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 Jan Tankersley (R)

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Member

GA - HB11 Safe Patient Limits Act; enact

GA - HB57 Inmate policies; policies for breast milk storage and breast feeding; provide

GA - SB5 Professions and Businesses; patient protection measures for patients undergoing sedation in certain settings; provide

GA - HB72 New Mothers Medicaid Expansion Act; enact

GA - HB91 Social services; temporary assistance for needy families; revise definition of cash assistance

GA - HB93 Health; eliminate duplicative state licensure and regulation of clinical laboratories; provisions

GA - HB128 Health; prohibit providers from discriminating against potential organ transplant recipients due solely to the physical or mental disability of the potential recipient

GA - HB135 Health; physician return medical certification as to the cause of death of patient to funeral director; provisions

GA - HB146 Public officers and employees; paid parental leave for eligible state employees and eligible local board of education employees; provide

GA - HB163 Community Health, Department of; submit state plan amendment to implement express lane enrollment in Medicaid; direct

GA - HR52 Joint Study Committee on Childhood Lead Exposure; create

GA - SB46 Health; certain medical personnel to administer vaccines during public health emergencies under certain conditions; authorize

GA - HB209 Public assistance; Medicaid Expansion Program; provide establishment

GA - HB213 Controlled substances; full practice authority for advance practice registered nurses; provide

GA - HB214 Social services; individuals to buy-in to Medicaid coverage; allow

GA - HB215 Social services; use of telehealth options in the Medicaid program; expand

GA - HB217 Community Health, Department of; annual quality and payment reporting for health care plans and programs administered; provide

GA - HB219 General Assembly; pilot program to evaluate whether health notes to assess the potential health impact by proposed legislation should be required by the General Assembly; provide

GA - HB239 Mental health; Department of Behavioral Health conduct or coordinate all audits of behavioral health providers; provide

GA - HB245 Professions and businesses; podiatry; amend a provision relating to fingerprint and criminal background checks

GA - HB257 The Maternity Supportive Housing Act; enact

GA - HB271 Community Health, Department of; assess one or more provider matching payments on ambulance services; authorize

GA - HB307 Georgia Telehealth Act; revise

GA - HB316 Pharmacies; increase pharmacist to pharmacy technician ratio for providing direct supervision at any time

GA - HB346 Jarom's Act; enact

GA - HB370 Health; term limits for members of joint hospital authorities; provide

GA - HB377 Georgia Women's Care (Child Care Alternatives, Resources, and Education) Act; enact

GA - HB381 Expanding Medicaid to Improve Health Outcomes for New Mothers Act; enact

GA - HB382 Positive Alternatives for Pregnancy and Parenting Grant Program; repeal Article

GA - SB116 Children and Youth Services; registration of maternity supportive house residences to provide housing for pregnant women; provide

GA - HB401 Vulnerable Child Protection Act; enact

GA - HR131 House Study Committee on Health in Georgia; create

GA - HB413 Health; prohibit state or local governments from requiring individuals to submit to vaccinations as a condition to certain actions if the vaccine does not meet certain conditions

GA - HB437 Local government; attendants at self-service motor fuel establishments to dispense motor fuel to individuals with special disabilities; require

GA - HB450 Low THC Oil Patient Registry; authorize Department of Public Health to release deidentified data to government entities for research

GA - HB458 Georgia Composite Medical Board; require certain training relating to sexual misconduct for members

GA - HR146 House Study Committee on Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) to Improve the Health of Women and Children; create

GA - HR147 House Study Committee on Abuse of Disabled Parking Permits; create

GA - SB164 HIV Tests; modernization of HIV related laws to align with science; provide

GA - HB474 Controlled substances; provide for concurrent prescribing of an opioid antagonist with opioids under certain circumstances

GA - HB539 Medical Practice Act of the State of Georgia; institutional licenses; revise provisions

GA - HB567 Newborn Screening and Genetics Advisory Committee; create

GA - HR186 Joint Medicaid Sustainability Study Committee; create

GA - HR187 Medicaid; expansion; urge

GA - HR188 State Workgroup to Increase Chronic Disease Information and Screenings in Communities of Color; creation; support

GA - SB215 Regulation of Hospitals; certified medication aides to administer certain medications to nursing home residents; authorize

GA - HB590 Mental health; grant program to establish assisted outpatient treatment programs; provide

GA - HB591 Mental health; marriage and family therapists to perform certain acts which physicians and others are authorized to perform; authorize

GA - HB627 Professions and businesses; athletic trainers; revise and update definitions

GA - HB629 Health; sale and dispensing of contact lenses; eliminate certain restrictions

GA - HB630 Medical assistance; authorization of appropriations for the purposes of obtaining federal financial participation for medical assistance payments; provisions

GA - HB637 Health; persons to wear masks, hoods, or other devices to prevent the spread of a contagious or infectious disease during and for 12 months following the conclusion of a public health emergency; authorize

GA - SB256 County Boards of Health; comprehensive reorganization; provide

GA - HB648 Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired Act; enact

GA - HB653 Georgia Pharmacy Practice Act; pharmacy care; revise definition

GA - HB690 Narcotic treatment programs; licensing; revise composition of regions

GA - HB692 Commission for the Blind and the Visually Impaired; create

GA - HB694 Children and youth; licensing, permitting, and approving authorities of personal care homes, child-caring institutions, and foster care homes; require

GA - HB695 Community Health, Department of; notify the applicable local law enforcement agencies; require

GA - HB717 Mental health; authorization of peace officers to take a person to a physician or emergency receiving facility for emergency examination under certain circumstances; provide

GA - HB722 Georgia Dignity in Pregnancy and Childbirth Act; enact

GA - HB727 Medicaid; coverage for doula services provided to an expectant mother; provide

GA - HB731 Health; hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers to utilize surgical smoke evacuation systems during surgical procedures; require

GA - HB738 Agriculture; production, manufacturing, dispensing and use of medical marijuana in this state; authorize

GA - HB741 Social services; temporary assistance for needy families; increase access to benefits

GA - HB752 Psychiatric Advance Directive Act; enact

GA - HB806 Georgia Community Midwife Act; enact

GA - HB807 Evidence; voluntary open communications related to healthcare; allow

GA - HR428 House Study Committee on Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder; create

GA - HB811 Professions and businesses; licensure and regulation of medical imaging and radiation therapy professionals; provide

GA - HR452 Georgia Department of Public Health; take action to increase child and adolescent immunization rates; urge

GA - HB825 Medical assistance; Medicaid coverage for medically necessary donor human milk; provide

GA - HB832 Health; revise definitions; furnishing of copies of health records; provisions

GA - HB861 Health; increase access to disposable menstrual products in public schools, penal institutions, certain social service shelters, and housing facilities

GA - HB864 Public assistance; use certain benefits for purchasing diapers or menstrual products; provide for waiver request

GA - HB918 Georgia Rare Disease Advisory Council; provide establishment

GA - HR577 Health; increased awareness, education, and research regarding rare diseases; recognize

GA - SB338 Medicaid; postpartum coverage under Medicaid from six months to one year following birth; increase

GA - SB340 Hospital Authorities and Designated Teaching Hospitals; definitions; revise

GA - SB341 Healthcare Services; guidelines for the prior authorization of a prescribed medication for chronic conditions requiring ongoing medication therapy; provide

GA - SB342 Insurance; annual reporting regarding mental health parity in healthcare plans; provide

GA - SB345 State Government; state and local governments from mandating vaccine passports; prohibit

GA - HB937 Medicaid; coverage for annual mammograms at no cost to recipient; provide

GA - HB939 Mental health; notice of admission and daily updates from facility to parent or legal guardian of an involuntary minor patient under 12; provide

GA - HB963 Controlled substances; Schedule I and IV; change certain provisions

GA - HB1013 Mental Health Parity Act; enact

GA - HB1042 OneGeorgia Authority Act; grant program to establish primary care medical facilities in health professional shortage areas; provide

GA - HB1049 State Board of Nursing Home Administrators; revise composition

GA - HB1054 Georgia Equine Therapy Recovery Program; establish

GA - HB1057 Mental health; standard suite of services that community service boards are required to provide in their respective service areas; provide

GA - HR629 House State Health Benefit Plan Study Committee; create

GA - HB1065 Mental health; emergency involuntary treatment; revise procedures

GA - HB1069 Mental health; adult mental health programs; provide licensure

GA - HB1086 Health; influenza vaccinations for discharged patients; lower age to 50

GA - HB1092 Georgia Women's CARE (Child Care Alternatives, Resources, and Education) Act, enact

GA - HR651 House Study Committee on Evaluating, Simplifying, and Eliminating Duplication of Regulatory Requirements for Mental Health and Social Services Providers

GA - HR652 Public Health, Department of; improve quality of care for those with HIV on the Medicaid program; urge

GA - SB403 "Georgia Behavioral Health and Peace Officer Co-Responder Act"; enact

GA - SB435 Education; shall be unlawful for Ga public school students or teams to compete against a Ga public school that permits a person of one gender to participate in an athletic program that is designated for persons of opposite gender; provide

GA - HB1186 Speech-language pathologists and audiologists; revise licensing provisions

GA - HB1192 Social services; treatment services under Medicaid to persons with HIV; provisions

GA - HB1219 Georgia Board of Dentistry; revise composition

GA - SB456 Health; requirements relating to the use of abortion-inducing drugs; provide

GA - HB1273 Medicaid Continuity of Coverage Program; establish

GA - HB1276 Community Health, Department of; statistical reports data relating to state health plans be posted on department website; require

GA - HB1279 Controlled substances; certain persons to carry prescription medications in a compartmentalized container; authorize

GA - HB1304 Georgia Caregivers Act; create

GA - HB1332 Social services; discrimination of healthcare services, including gender-affirming hormone therapy and gender-reassignment surgeries; prohibit

GA - HB1336 Health; allow assisted living communities and personal care homes to enroll as Medicaid providers

GA - HB1339 State employees' health benefit plans; cover medically necessary care and treatment of head and neck conditions; mandate

GA - SB496 Death Investigations; medical examiner's inquiry when a pregnant female dies and an inquest; require

GA - HB1348 Georgia Smoke-free Air Act; revise

GA - HB1355 Childhood Lead Exposure Control Act; revise

GA - HB1394 Public Health, Dept. of; require persons to submit to vaccinations or other measures to prevent contagious or infectious diseases; repeal authority

GA - HB1404 Community Health, Department of; submit waiver request to the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to authorize private institutions for mental disease to qualify for Medicaid reimbursement

GA - HR823 House Study Committee on Pharmacy Deserts; create

GA - HB1449 Community Health, Department of; contract with dental care administrators to cover dental service for recipients of medical assistance; provide

GA - HB1453 Crimes and offenses; access to medical cannabis; revise provisions

GA - HR843 Health, Department of; work with Department of Community Health to enhance HIV prevention for Medicaid beneficiaries

GA - SB573 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities;hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers to utilize surgical smoke evacuation systems during surgical procedures to protect patients and health care workers from the hazards of surgical smoke; require

GA - HB1477 Public officers and employees; require coroners to meet or employ an individual who meets the qualifications of a medical examiner

GA - HB1483 Professions and businesses; licensure by endorsement in social work; provide

GA - HB1484 Social services; three-year pilot program to provide coverage for the diagnosis and treatment of PANDAS and PANS under Medicaid; provide

GA - HB1514 Professions and businesses; definition of physical therapy to include ordering diagnostic imaging and using ultrasound; revise

GA - HB1518 Health; repeal in its entirety Chapter 26 relating to midwifery; provide for licensure and regulation of community midwives; provide for an exception

GA - HB1526 Healthy Georgia Act; enact

GA - HB1559 Pharmacists; dispense opioid antagonists to individuals who have been prescribed opioids; authorize

GA - HR998 General Assembly; biomarker testing as a necessary part of precision medicine; recognize benefits

GA - HR1103 Biden Administration; remove its veto and reapprove Georgia's Medicaid expansion waiver; urge

GA - HB1609 Health; requirements for nurse staffing in hospitals; provide

GA - HR1224 Georgia State Board of Medical Examiners and Georgia Board of Nursing; enhance public awareness of bone marrow donations; urge