Health and Human Services

GA - Abusive Billing Practices (Senate)

GA - Health Care Delivery (Senate)

GA - Pharmacology (Senate)

GA - Scope of Practice (Senate)

GA - Technology and Education (Senate)

GA - Senator Renee S Unterman (R)

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Chairman

GA - Senator Dean Burke (R)

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Vice Chairman

GA - Senator Fran Millar (R)

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Secretary

GA - Senator Steve Henson (D)

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Ex-officio

GA - Senator Gloria S. Butler (D)

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Member

GA - Senator Bill Cowsert (R)

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Member

GA - Senator Chuck Hufstetler (R)

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Member

GA - Senator Judson Hill (R)

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Member - (until 02/13/2017)

GA - Senator Lester Jackson (D)

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Member

GA - Senator Greg Kirk (R)

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Member

GA - Senator Kay Kirkpatrick (R)

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Member

GA - Senator William T. Ligon, Jr. (R)

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Member

GA - Senator Nan Orrock (D)

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Member

GA - Senator David Shafer (R)

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Member

GA - Senator Larry Walker, III (R)

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Member

GA - Senator Ben Watson (R)

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Member

GA - SB241 Controlled Substances; electronic data base of prescription information; provisions; change

GA - SB238 'Whole Women's Health Act'

GA - SB245 'Cory Joseph Wilson Act'

GA - SB239 Woman's Right to Know Act; voluntary and informed consent requirements; include chemical abortion

GA - SB242 Advanced Practice Registered Nurses; delegating physician can enter into a protocol agreement at any one time for nurses; provide

GA - SB420 Health; health clubs have at least one functional automated external defibrillator on site at such facility; require

GA - SB157 State Health Planning and Development; certificate of needs requirement; create additional exemptions

GA - SB158 State Health Planning and Development; certificate of need requirement; create additional exemptions; freestanding emergency services; create certificate of need process

GA - HB154 Dental hygienists; perform certain functions under general supervision; authorize

GA - SR317 Georgia Congressional Delegation and US Congress; authorize study of medical marijuana in Georgia; urge

GA - HB157 Medical advertising; certain certifying organizations; revise certain criteria

GA - HB241 Cove's Law; enact

GA - HB249 Controlled substances; collect more information regarding dispensing and use; provisions

GA - HB330 Human Services, Department of; certain individuals identified in a diligent search conducted as part of a dependency proceeding; specify additional information

GA - HB331 The Caregiver Educational Consent Act; enact

GA - SR352 Senate Study Committee on Homelessness; create

GA - HB65 Low THC Oil Patient Registry; conditions and eligibility; change provisions

GA - HB486 Georgia Registered Professional Nurse Practice Act; training of proxy caregivers; provisions

GA - HB165 Medical practice; maintenance of certification shall not be required; provide

GA - HB927 Courts; certain information be provided to caregiver upon placement of a child; require

GA - SB424 Center for Rural Health Innovation and Sustainability; establishment; provide

GA - SB370 Medical Assistance; commissioner of human services waives the first $25,000 of any estate; provide

GA - HB678 Insurance; consumer protections regarding health insurance; provisions

GA - HB161 Drug related objects; employees of harm reduction organizations are not subject to certain offenses; provide

GA - SB459 "Rural Hospital Infusion Plan (RHIP) Act"

GA - SB471 Prescription Drugs; practitioners to issue electronic prescriptions for certain controlled substances; require

GA - SB479 Low THC Oil; circumstances for the lawful possession or control of low THC oil and medical marijuana; provide; Medical Marijuana Patient Registry; create

GA - SB483 Legislative Services; private lactation room open to public in Capitol Building or the Paul D. Coverdell Legislative Office Building; provide

GA - SR865 State of Georgia Council on Respiratory Health Promotion; support creation

GA - HB909 Health; designation of perinatal facilities; provisions

GA - SB437 Resuscitate; parental requirement for consent; revise

GA - SB400 Health; Certificate of Need Program; repeal

GA - SB399 Nurses; advanced nursing practice; revise certain provisions

GA - HB635 Disabled Adults and Elder Persons Protection Act; at-risk adult protection investigative/coordinating teams; provide establishment

GA - HR1198 United States Congress; increase per diem rate for nursing care in state veteran homes to 75 percent of state private nursing rates; urge

GA - SB16 Low THC Oil; definition; provisions relating to conditions eligible for use; change

GA - SB29 Education; drinking water in child care learning centers and for lead contamination; require testing

GA - SB7 Medical Assistance; obtaining federal financial participation for medical assistance payments to providers of Medicaid expansion; authorization of appropriations

GA - SB44 Public Disclosure; identities of individual and corporate donors to rural hospital organizations; exempt

GA - SB41 Pharmacists and Pharmacies; durable medical equipment suppliers; provide for the licensure; definition; requirements; discipline and revocation

GA - SB40 Mental Health; transport certain mentally ill patients; authorization of emergency medical services personnel

GA - HB210 Health; certain specimen collection stations and blood banks are not considered clinical laboratories; provide

GA - SB52 Mental Health; authorizing licensed professional counselor; sunset provision; repeal

GA - SB61 "Georgia Family Planning Initiative" enact; public and private funding; authorize

GA - SR73 Family Medical Leave Fund; create -CA

GA - SB53 Handicapped Persons; adult changing stations in certain commercial public facilities; provide installation and maintenance

GA - SB55 "Psychiatric Advance Directive Act"

GA - SB47 Physicians; visiting sports teams' physicians; provide for licensure exemption; requirements; limitations; agreements with other states

GA - SB96 Health; pronouncement of death by registered professional nurses; nursing homes and hospice care; authorize; county medical examiner's duties after notice of suspicious death; make a conforming change

GA - SB102 Emergency Medical Services; emergency cardiac care centers; designation; Office of Cardiac Care within Department of Public Health; establishment

GA - SB125 Physician Assistants; authority to prescribe hydrocodone compound products; authorize a physician to delegate to a physician assistant

GA - SB123 Health Planning and Development; destination cancer hospital for purposes of certificate of need; eliminate 65 percent out-of-state patient base requirement

GA - SB138 "Patient Compensation Act"

GA - SB359 "Consumer Coverage and Protection for Out-of-Network Medical Care Act"

GA - SB137 Child Support Recovery Act; federal Deficit Reduction Act of 2005; require the obligor to pay the full fee

GA - SR188 Senate Study Committee on Barriers to Georgians' Access to Adequate Healthcare

GA - SB220 Medical Practice; requirements for advertising or publicizing of medical specialty certification; repeal

GA - SB230 Health; requirements of physicians performing or inducing abortion to have hospital admitting privileges; provide

GA - SB221 Optometrists; administer pharmaceutical agents by injection; authorize doctors of optometry; limitations and requirements; provide

GA - SR238 Senate Electroshock Therapy Study Committee; create

GA - SB193 Positive Alternatives for Pregnancy and Parenting Grant Program; program mission and practice; revise

GA - HB427 Physicians and Health Care Practitioners for Rural Areas Assistance Act; enact

GA - HB359 Supporting and Strengthening Families Act; enact

GA - HB305 Domestic relations; category of third parties who may be awarded custody in certain circumstances; add stepparents

GA - SB422 Clinical Laboratories; exempting pharmacists from provisions of said chapter when performing certain tests; provisions; change

GA - HB764 Crimes and offenses; lawful possession of certain quantities of low THC oil and marijuana; provide

GA - HB519 Insurance; health benefit plans; utilize certain clinical review criteria to establish step therapy protocols; require

GA - HB803 Crimes and offenses; trafficking a disabled adult, elder person, or resident; prohibit

GA - HB301 Income tax; certain physicians; delete deduction to create new credit; provisions

GA - HB982 Courts; relative searches conducted by DFCS; change provisions

GA - SR761 Senate Study Committee on Dyslexia; create

GA - SB351 Nurses; advanced nursing practice; provisions; revise

GA - HB996 Georgia Technology Authority; Strategic Integrated Data System; establish

GA - SB300 Medical Assistance; a program of premium assistance; eligible individuals to obtain health care coverage; provide

GA - HB646 Community Health, Department of; pilot program to provide coverage for bariatric surgical procedures; reinstate

GA - HB844 Georgia Commission on Hearing Impaired and Deaf Persons; revise provisions

GA - SB325 "Interstate Medical Licensure Compact Act"; Georgia Composite Medical Board to administer the compact in this state; authorize

GA - SB364 Delegation of Authority to Physician Assistants; higher supervisory ratio; completed a board approve anesthesiologist assistant program; authorize

GA - HB972 Human Services, Department of; Division of Family and Children Services to offer extended care youth services under certain circumstances; allow

GA - HB847 Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact; enter into an interstate compact

GA - HB769 Health; recommendations from the House Rural Development Council; implement

GA - HB701 State employment; drug testing; allow testing for all forms of opioids

GA - SB491 State Health Planning and Development; definitions; exemptions; provide

GA - SB202 Medical Assistance; increase in the personal needs allowance to be deducted from a nursing home resident's income; provide

GA - SB8 "Surprise Billing and Consumer Protection Act"; health insurance; provide consumer protections; definitions

GA - HB920 Domestic relations; department's information concerning the parties to an adoption under certain circumstances; allow for the use

GA - HB513 Domestic relations; signs to be posted at certain medical facilities where a newborn child may be left; provide

GA - SB334 Nurses; administrative purposes only; Georgia Board of Nursing to Department of Community Health; transfer

GA - SB357 Health Coordination and Innovation Council of the State of Georgia; create

GA - SB12 Dental Hygienists; perform certain functions under general supervision; authorize licensed dental hygienists

GA - SB4 "Enhancing Mental Health Treatment in Georgia Act"; Georgia Mental Health Treatment Task Force; establish

GA - SB31 Community Health Dept.; at least two members of board shall also be members of the state health benefit plan; State Health Benefit Plan Customer Advisory Council; create

GA - HB206 The Pharmacy Audit Bill of Rights; certain audits conducted by the Department of Community Health; remove exception; provisions

GA - SB106 Pain Management Clinics; health care professionals who must be on-site; revise a provision

GA - SB121 "Jeffrey Dallas Gay, Jr., Act"

GA - SB146 Electroconvulsive Therapy; performed only by physicians; require

GA - SB153 Hearing Aid Dealers and Dispensers; exempt certain activities

GA - SB166 "Nurse Licensure Compact"; Georgia Board of Nursing exercise certain powers with respect to compact; authorize

GA - SB168 Child Abuse; permitted to access child abuse records by department, or county, or other state or local agency; extend; Central Child Abuse Registry; permit access

GA - HB382 Georgia Commission on Women; place under Department of Public Health administration

GA - HB360 Prescription drugs; expedited partner therapy for patients with venereal diseases; provisions

GA - HB124 Public assistance; fraud; revisions

GA - SB295 'Georgia Retail Marijuana Code'; regulation of retail sale of marijuana; provide

GA - SB296 'Controlled Substances Therapeutic Relief Act'

GA - SR474 Senate Study Committee on Adult Changing Stations in Commercial Public Facilities; create

GA - SR475 General Assembly; provide by law for the legalization and regulation of marijuana; authorize-CA

GA - SB346 Health; Low THC Oil Patient Registry; repeal

GA - SB344 'Georgia Retail Marijuana Code'; regulation of the retail sale of marijuana; provide

GA - SR614 General Assembly; authorize the legalization and regulation of marijuana; provide-CA

GA - HB647 Community Health, Department of; pilot program to provide coverage for treatment and management of obesity; provide

GA - SB81 "Jeffrey Dallas Gay, Jr., Act."; opioid antagonists under conditions the state health officer may impose; provide state health officer may issue standing order permitting certain persons and entities to obtain

GA - SB352 Health; general provisions; patient brokering; prohibit; Commission on Substance Abuse and Recovery; establish; fraudulent insurance act; provide

GA - SB318 Mental Health; involuntary evaluation and treatment based on consultation with paramedic; execution of a physician's certificate for emergency examination; provide

GA - SB382 Optometrists guidance and consultation by the Department of Public Health; provide

GA - SB444 Georgia Alzheimer's and Related Dementias State Plan Advisory Council; create

GA - SR983 Joint Study Committee on Low THC Medical Oil Access; create

GA - HB782 Crimes and offenses; provisions relating to permissible users with access to prescription drug monitoring program data base; revise

GA - SB447 Inherited Metabolic and Genetic Disorders; genetic conditions identified by Department of Public Health for inclusion in the system for the prevention of serious illness; add

GA - SR772 Joint Study Committee on Retrospective Emergency Room Policies; create

GA - SB434 Georgia Board for Physician Workforce; Georgia Board of Health Care Workforce; change the name

GA - SB429 Department of Family and Children Services; may contract for the purchase of or purchase services for children or families to whom it is providing child welfare services without competitive bidding; provide