Public and Community Health

GA - Representative Sharon Cooper (R)

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Chairman

GA - Representative Gary Richardson (R)

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Vice Chairman

GA - Representative Mary Margaret Oliver (D)

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Secretary

GA - Representative Michelle Au (D)

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Member

GA - Representative Imani Barnes (D)

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Member

GA - Representative James Burchett (R)

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Member

GA - Representative Park Cannon (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 Karla Drenner (D)

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Member

GA - Representative Spencer Frye (D)

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Member

GA - Representative Houston Gaines (R)

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Member

GA - Representative Lee Hawkins (R)

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Ex-officio

GA - Representative Scott Hilton (R)

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Member

GA - Representative Karlton Howard (D)

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Member

GA - Representative John LaHood (R)

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Member

GA - Representative Shelly Hutchinson (D)

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Member

GA - Representative Angie O'Steen (R)

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Member

GA - Representative Butch Parrish (R)

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Member

GA - Representative Tremaine Teddy Reese (D)

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Member

GA - Representative Devan Seabaugh (R)

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Member

GA - Representative Dexter Sharper (D)

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Member

GA - Representative Darlene Taylor (R)

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Member

GA - Representative Dale Washburn (R)

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Member

GA - HB17 Public Health, Department of; carry out projects to increase education, awareness, or diagnosis of valvular heart disease; authorize

GA - HB19 Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities, Department of; create and maintain electronic inpatient psychiatric bed registry; require

GA - HB25 Dignity is Essential Act; enact

GA - HB26 School Behavioral Mental Health Support Act; enact

GA - HR8 State Workgroup to Increase Chronic Disease Information and Screenings in Communities of Color; support creation

GA - HB46 Public Health, Department of; Maternal Mortality Review Committee; provide composition

GA - HB89 Public Health, Department of; require healthcare providers, facilities, and pharmacies to provide the Maternal Mortality Review Committee with psychiatric or other clinical records

GA - HB97 Community Health, Department of; expansion of Medicaid; provide

GA - HB102 Community Health, Department of; Georgia Quality Reporting Project; establish

GA - HB109 Mental health; five-year pilot program for the purpose of creating emergency psychiatric assessment, treatment, and healing units or EmPATH units in hospitals; provide

GA - HB122 Persons and their rights; life from the moment of conception is accorded same rights and protections guaranteed to all persons; provide

GA - SB30 Hospitals and Related Institutions; hormone therapies and puberty-blocking medications for certain purposes to minors; prohibit prescribing or administering

GA - HB149 Healthy Mothers Now Act; enact

GA - HB173 Education, Department of; provide parents and guardians of students entering sixth grade information regarding adolescent vaccinations in print and electronic form

GA - HB178 Social services; treatment services under Medicaid to persons with HIV; provisions

GA - HB258 PeachCare for Adults Act; enact

GA - HB263 Medical assistance; pilot program to provide coverage under Medicaid program for doula care for pregnant Medicaid recipients; provide

GA - HB291 Health; certification of community health workers; provide

GA - SB101 Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy; testing in the newborn screening system; require

GA - HB332 Social services; convene an advisory working group to review tools and protocols for screening of children for trauma; provisions

GA - HB334 Sickle Cell Disease Protection Act; enact

GA - HB347 Georgia Pro-Birth Accountability Act; enact

GA - HB352 Georgia Gestational Diabetes Management Act; enact

GA - SB162 Georgia Composite Medical Board; implement an automated credentialing system for healthcare providers in this state; provide

GA - HB459 Heart Health for All Act; enact

GA - HB471 Health; licensed general hospitals and birthing centers make available a water safety education video to parents or guardians of newborn infants; require

GA - HB488 Pregnancy Center Fraud Prevention Act; enact

GA - HB489 End Public Funding of Misinformation Act; enact

GA - HB500 Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Act; increase access to and amount of benefits

GA - HB506 Social services; Medicaid coverage for tobacco cessation treatments; provide

GA - SB185 Correctional Institutions of State and Counties; use of state funds or resources for certain treatments for state inmates; prohibit

GA - HB520 Georgia Licensed Midwife Act; enact

GA - HR304 House Study Committee on the Costs and Effects of Smoking; create

GA - HB573 Insurance; remove dentists from participation with care management organizations

GA - HB584 Health; reassign licensing and oversight of certain treatments and programs from Departments of Community Health to Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities

GA - HB589 Social services; coverage for fertility diagnostic care, treatment, and preservation services; provide

GA - SB233 Behavioral Health Reform and Innovation Commission; revise the subcommittees

GA - HB598 Reproductive Freedom Act; enact

GA - HB605 Public Health, Department of; continue operation of Georgia Tobacco Quit Line, subject to appropriations of funds; require

GA - HB607 Public Health, Department of; two-year pilot program for home visiting in homes of children with asthma; provisions

GA - HR395 Maternal Mental Health Awareness Month; month of May; designate

GA - HB657 Mental health; qualifications of recovery community organizations for substance use; provide

GA - HB665 Health; transfer all authorities and responsibilities relating to environmental health from county boards of health to Department of Public Health

GA - HB668 Crimes and offenses; change references to assistance and guide dogs to service dogs

GA - HB672 Georgia Dignity in Pregnancy and Childbirth Act; enact

GA - HR426 General Assembly; support creation of a Black Maternal Health Caucus; urge

GA - HB717 Medical Practice Act; regulation of the administration of psychedelic-assisted treatment and therapy; provide

GA - HB729 Georgia Maternity Care Desert Reduction Act; enact

GA - HR540 Congress; adopt legislation requiring Medicare program to provide for lifelong coverage of immunosuppressive drugs for liver, heart, and lung transplant recipients; urge

GA - HB751 Community Health, Department of; submit a Section 1115 waiver request to the United States Department of Health and Human Services for Medicare and Medicaid Services; authorize

GA - HR591 Black Midwives Day; March 14, 2025; recognize

GA - HR593 House Study Committee on Maternal, Prenatal, and Pediatric Care Access and Funding; create

GA - HB795 Public Health, Department of; establish an Infant Wellness Resource hotline service

GA - HR611 House Study Committee on Abandoned Child Placement Following Hospital Discharge; create

GA - HR654 Community EsTr(El/La); commend

GA - HB866 Community Health, Department of; pilot program to improve management of inpatient insulin levels in rural hospital organizations; provide

GA - HR713 Healthcare providers; help promote 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline; urge

GA - HB872 Health; right to contraception for individuals; provide

GA - HR847 House Study Committee on Evaluating Funding for Public Health; create

GA - HB884 Public Health, Department of; establish grant program for perinatal facilities to increase availability of obstetric care in low access maternity care areas and deserts

GA - HB885 Public Health, Department of; establish program to assist certain pregnant women who reside in low access to maternity care areas and maternity care deserts in obtaining obstetric care

GA - HB897 Urgent Insulin Safety Net Program Act; enact

GA - HB898 Continuing Insulin Safety Net Act; enact

GA - HB925 The Georgia Maternal Health Momnibus Act; enact

GA - HB929 Public Health, Department of; three-year pilot program for dietetics services for public elementary and secondary school students and patients at federally qualified health centers; provide

GA - HB981 Professions and businesses; expand certain advanced practice registered nurse and physician assistant prescriptive authorizations