Health and Human Services

GA - Senator Ben Watson (R)

Title:

Chairman

GA - Senator Kay Kirkpatrick (R)

Title:

Vice Chairman

GA - Senator Ed Setzler (R)

Title:

Secretary

GA - Senator Matt Brass (R)

Title:

Member

GA - Senator Bill Cowsert (R)

Title:

Ex-officio

GA - Senator Russ Goodman (R)

Title:

Ex-officio

GA - Senator Sonya Halpern (D)

Title:

Member

GA - Senator Sally Harrell (D)

Title:

Member

GA - Senator Bo Hatchett (R)

Title:

Member

GA - Senator Mike Hodges (R)

Title:

Ex-officio

GA - Senator Chuck Hufstetler (R)

Title:

Member

GA - Senator John F. Kennedy (R)

Title:

Ex-officio

GA - Senator David Lucas (D)

Title:

Member

GA - Senator Randal Mangham (D)

Title:

Member

GA - Senator Nikki Merritt (D)

Title:

Member

GA - Senator Nan Orrock (D)

Title:

Member

GA - Senator Randy Robertson (R)

Title:

Ex-officio

GA - Senator Larry Walker, III (R)

Title:

Ex-officio

GA - Senator Brian Strickland (R)

Title:

Member

GA - SB6 Controlled Substances; determine whether a controlled substance has been adulterated; authorize the use of testing equipment

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

GA - HB154 Emergency medical services; designate ambulance services as an essential service

GA - SB58 "Georgia Transporting Life-Saving Organs and Personnel Act"; enact

GA - SR84 Right to Reproductive Freedom; provide

GA - SB72 "Hope for Georgia Patients Act"; enact

GA - SB80 Tax Credits; the definition of "rural hospital organization"; revise

GA - HB227 Putting Georgia's Patients First Act; enact

GA - HB262 Community Health, Department of; grant program for purpose of acquiring and installing backup generators; provide

GA - SB91 State Employees' Health Insurance Plan; Board of Community Health from entering into, executing, or renewing a contract with any pharmacy benefits manager that owns or has an ownership interest in any retail pharmacy; prohibit

GA - SB95 Certificate of Need Program; an exemption from certificate of need requirements concerning life plan communities; revise

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

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

GA - SB113 Georgia Composite Board of Professional Counselors, Social Workers, and Marriage and Family Therapists; establish a professional health program; authorize

GA - HB329 Professional and businesses; authorize certified nurse practitioners and physician assistants to perform artificial insemination

GA - HB352 Georgia Gestational Diabetes Management Act; enact

GA - SB130 Health; medical education funding and the service cancelable loan program; expand

GA - SB140 Optometrists; doctors of optometry to dispense and sell pharmaceutical agents to patients under certain conditions; provide

GA - HB428 Health; codify right to in vitro fertilization for individuals

GA - SB158 Commission for Blind and Visually Disabled Persons; create

GA - SB169 Professions and Businesses; certain education and training requirements for the performance of dry needling; provide

GA - SR191 Black Maternal Health Statistics; recognize

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 - HB473 Controlled substances; Schedule I; provide certain provisions

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

GA - SB186 Hospitals and Related Institutions; assisted living communities and personal care homes to enroll as Medicaid providers; permit

GA - SB188 Georgia Adult and Aging Services Agency; create

GA - SB195 Pharmacies; pharmacists are authorized to dispense preexposure prophylaxis and postexposure prophylaxis under certain conditions; provide

GA - SB196 "Pregnancy Center Fraud Prevention Act"; enact

GA - SB197 "End Public Funding of Misinformation Act"' enact

GA - SB220 "Putting Georgia's Patients First Act"; enact

GA - SB222 Commission for the Blind and the Visually Impaired; create

GA - HB567 Professions and businesses; authorize and regulate teledentistry by licensed dentists

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

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

GA - HB645 Health; COVID-19 testing of staff members in long term-care facilities; repeal certain provisions

GA - SB258 Access to Midwife-led Birth Centers Grant Program; establish

GA - SB269 Mental Illness; certain procedures and notifications for involuntary outpatient commitments; provide

GA - SB277 Drug Abuse Treatment and Education Programs; definition of drugs to include alcohol and its derivatives; revise

GA - SB287 Medical Assistance; Georgia Interested Parties Advisory Group within the Department of Community Health; create and establish a purpose

GA - SB288 Disclosure of Certain Information; certain examinations on an anesthetized or unconscious patient without prior informed consent; prohibit

GA - SB290 Health; certification of community health workers; provide

GA - SR290 Risk Assessment; culturally competent risk assessment tools; targeted public health initiatives, and enhanced healthcare interventions; recognize the need

GA - SB307 Physicians, Assistants; continuing education requirements for all physicians to include one hour on maternal health; provide

GA - SB308 Medical Assistance; Medicaid coverage of postpartum maternal mental health care services; provide

GA - SB314 "Wholesale Prescription Drug Importation Act"; enact

GA - SR311 Senate Study Committee on Recovery Residences; create

GA - SB323 Health, Insurance, and Professions and Businesses; medically necessary tests for metal allergies and metal sensitivities to be administered prior to any cardiovascular, dental, or orthopedic surgery involving the insertion of a metal implant; provide

GA - SR342 Senate Study Committee on Certified Peer Specialists, Addiction Recovery Programs, and Protocols; create

GA - SR344 Senate Study Committee on a Single-payer Healthcare Program; create

GA - SR347 Jadassohn, Josef; recognize

GA - SB326 Handicapped Persons; a program for support service providers to assist blind and deaf-blind individuals in navigating employment and higher education opportunities; provide

GA - SR372 Stomach Cancer; increased awareness; express support

GA - SR381 Autoimmune Disease Awareness Month; recognize March 2025

GA - SR398 Black Midwives Day; recognize March 14, 2025

GA - SB360 Public Assistance; public option buy-in program to provide healthcare coverage to individuals not eligible for Medicaid coverage; provide

GA - SB379 "Georgia Health Insurance Affordability and Consumer Protection Act"; enact

GA - SB380 Medical Assistance; authorization of appropriations for obtaining federal financial participation for medical assistance payments to providers of Medicaid expansion; provide

GA - SB395 Department of Public Health; eligible for the Low THC Oil Patient Registry; require a physician to submit certain information to the Georgia Composite Medical Board

GA - SR567 State Prader-Willi Syndrome Awareness Day; express support for the designation

GA - SR574 The Susan Jolley Foundation, the Georgia Cancer Control Consortium, and Cancer Pathways; recognize