Health and Human Services

GA - Pharmacology (Senate)

GA - Scope of Practice (Senate)

GA - Technology and Education (Senate)

GA - Healthcare Delivery & Access (Senate)

GA - Patient/Insurance Issues (Senate)

GA - Senator Ben Watson (R)

Title:

Chairman

GA - Senator Dean Burke (R)

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Vice Chairman

GA - Senator Greg Dolezal (R)

Title:

Secretary

GA - Senator Greg Kirk (R)

Title:

Secretary - (until 12/22/2019)

GA - Senator John F. Kennedy (R)

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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 Steve Henson (D)

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Member

GA - Senator Chuck Hufstetler (R)

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Member

GA - Senator Lester G. Jackson (D)

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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 Renee S Unterman (R)

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Member

GA - Senator Larry Walker III (R)

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Member

GA - Senator III Walker, Larry (R)

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Member

GA - SB3 Medical Assistance; program of premium assistance to enable eligible individuals to obtain health care coverage; provide

GA - SB28 Insurance; imposing a copayment, coinsurance, or office visit charge in an amount greater than charges imposed for physician; prohibit

GA - SR217 Senate Study Committee on Prescribing Patterns for Antidepressants and Other Psychotropic Medications; create

GA - SB184 State Employees' Health Insurance Plan; services covered and furnished by a federally qualified health center are reimbursed at no less than the Medicare maximum; provide

GA - SB185 Public Assistance; qualified Medicare beneficiary program; eligibility requirements; application forms; provide

GA - SB189 Health Records; costs for copying medical records; provide

GA - SB206 Insurance; preexisting conditions under short-term health benefit policies or certificates; definitions; provide

GA - SB207 Georgia Board for Physician Workforce; change name; board's membership; revise

GA - SB232 'Controlled Substances Therapeutic Relief Act'; enact

GA - HB39 Physical Therapy Licensure Compact Act; enter into an interstate compact

GA - SB169 "Woman's Right to Know Act"; chemical abortion under voluntary and informed consent requirements; include

GA - SB168 Nurses; certain definitions; revise

GA - HB187 Community Health, Department of; pilot program to provide coverage for the treatment and management of obesity and related conditions; provide

GA - HB551 Controlled substances; kratom; provisions

GA - SB223 Controlled Substances; legislative findings; definitions; identification of a standard level of kratom alkoloids and establish recommended dosages; provide

GA - SB225 Juvenile Code; in conformity with the federal Social Security Act and the Family First Prevention Services Act; bring provisions

GA - SB106 "Patients First Act"

GA - HB514 Georgia Mental Health Reform and Innovation Commission; create

GA - SB90 Insurance; certain health insurers to cover emergency medical care; require

GA - HB26 Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact; enter into an interstate compact

GA - SB16 "Interstate Medical Licensure Compact Act"

GA - HB345 Penal institutions; pregnant female inmates or a female inmate who is in the immediate postpartum period; provide prohibited practices

GA - SR276 Congress; eliminate five-month waiting period for disability insurance benefits for individuals living with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS); urge

GA - SB258 Department of Community Health; mothers giving birth to newborns retain Medicaid eligibility for one year following birth; require to allow

GA - SB267 'Certified Community Midwife Act'; enact

GA - SB272 Controlled Substances; sale to and by minors of drug products containing dextromethorphan; prohibit

GA - SB279 Consent for Surgical or Medical Treatment; pelvic examinations on anesthetized or unconscious female patient without consent; prohibit

GA - SB334 'Certified Community Midwife Act'; licensure and regulation; provide

GA - SB340 Childhood Cancer Awareness Day; September 1 of each year; provide

GA - SB345 Standards, Labeling, and Adulteration of Food; nonprofit organizations to prepare in accordance with Department of Public Health requirements; provide

GA - SB347 Hospitals and Healthcare Facilities; surgical smoke evacuation system; require

GA - SB359 'Surprise Billing Consumer Protection Act'; certain consumer protections against surprise billing; provide

GA - SB361 "Jay's Law"; establish protocols for the early recognition and treatment of sepsis; require hospitals; enact

GA - SB311 Health; patient brokering; prohibit; definitions; exceptions; penalties; provide

GA - SB383 'Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired Act'; create; definitions; commission and the policy of this state; provide

GA - SB417 Physicians, Assistants, and Others; criminal background checks for certain healthcare professionals and others; provisions; revise

GA - SB420 Department of Agriculture; rules and regulations relating to the public use of restroom facilities in food sales establishments; establish

GA - HB521 Professions and businesses; temporary licenses for dentists licensed in other states to provide dental care to indigent populations in this state; authorize

GA - HB842 Gracie's Law; enact

GA - HB789 Insurance; creation of a surprise bill rating system based upon the number of certain physician specialty groups contracted with a hospital within a health insurer's network; provide

GA - HB888 Surprise Billing Consumer Protection Act; enact

GA - HB991 Healthcare Transparency and Accountability Act; enact

GA - HB166 Genetic Counselors Act; enact

GA - SB36 Medical Assistance; authorization of appropriations for purposes of obtaining federal financial participation; Medicaid expansion; provide

GA - SB12 Health; certain health clubs have at least one functional automated external defibrillator; require

GA - SB199 Education; testing of drinking water in child care learning centers and schools for lead contamination; require

GA - SB195 "Prescription Drug Benefits Freedom of Information and Consumer Protection Act"; enact

GA - HB323 Insurance; administration of claims by pharmacy benefit managers; revise provisions

GA - HB374 Health; administer medications to residents under hospice care pursuant to a physician's written orders; authorize certified medication aides

GA - HB233 Pharmacy Anti-Steering and Transparency Act; enact

GA - HB62 Margie's Law; enact

GA - SB71 Hospital Authority; sale or lease of a hospital; provisions; revise

GA - HB158 Medical assistance; Medicaid recipients have the same access to antiretroviral regimens used to treat HIV and AIDS as to those included in the formulary established for the Georgia AIDS Drugs Assistance Programs; provide

GA - SB109 Advanced Practice Registered Nurse; delegation by a physician; order radiographic imaging tests in non-life-threatening situations; authorize

GA - SB274 Advisory Council on Rare Diseases; create

GA - SB291 "Georgia Death with Dignity Act"; physician-assisted end-of-life options for terminally ill individuals; create provisions; enact

GA - SR546 Bailey, Ms. Dottie; commend; Mental Health Alert Wristband; local law enforcement agencies to purchase and freely distribute; encourage

GA - SB307 "The Living Hope Home Act"; related to supportive housing for pregnant women age 18 or older; enact

GA - HB958 The Maternity Supportive Housing Act; enact

GA - SB395 County and Municipal Hospital Authorities; standard of indigency; proceeds from the sale or lease of a hospital by a hospital authority; revise

GA - SB391 "Early Prescription Refills During Emergencies Act"; health insurers to provide coverage for early refills of a 30 day supply; require; enact

GA - SB401 State Board of Nursing Home Administrators; composition; revise

GA - HB816 Professions and businesses; chiropractors may own professional corporations with physicians; provide

GA - SB482 Office of Health Strategy and Coordination; state all-payer claims database; establishment of an advisory committee; provide

GA - SB483 "Behavioral Rehabilitation and Stability Services Act"; certain Medicaid reimbursement; enact

GA - HB1054 Health; newborn screening for various disorders; revise provisions

GA - HB1114 Medical assistance; Medicaid coverage for lactation care and services and postpartum care; provide

GA - HB791 Pharmacists; dispense up to a 90 day supply of a maintenance medication under certain conditions; authorize

GA - SB113 Hospitals and Other Health Care Facilities; nursing homes and personal care homes; backup power sources in the event of power outage; require

GA - SB125 Handicapped Persons; installation and maintenance of adult changing stations in certain commercial public facilities for persons with disabilities; provide

GA - SB121 Prescription Drug Monitoring Program Data Base; length of time prescription information is retained from two years to five years; increase

GA - HB290 Health; pilot program to provide preexposure assistance to persons at risk of HIV infection; establish

GA - SB151 "The Health Act"; enact

GA - HB160 Community Health, Department of; pilot program to provide coverage for bariatric surgical procedures; reinstate

GA - HB217 Crimes and offenses; employees and agents of syringe services programs are not subject to certain offenses relating to hypodermic syringes and needles; provide

GA - HB483 Controlled substances; Schedules I, IV, and V; change certain provisions

GA - HB300 Health; redesignate continuing care retirement communities as life plan communities

GA - SB306 "Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology Interstate Compact"; enter into compact; licensing provisions; revise

GA - SB321 Physicians, Assistants; relating to the number a physician can authorize and supervise at any one time; provisions; revise

GA - SB323 Professions and Businesses; patient protection measures; undergoing sedation in certain settings; provide

GA - SB372 Public Health; provisions; modernize, clarify, and update; certain councils and committees; eliminate

GA - SB427 Medicaid; actuarial study of the fiscal impact of carving out pharmacy benefits; Department of Community Health; require

GA - HB1125 Lacee's Law; enact

GA - HB918 Pharmacies; various provisions relating to the practice of pharmacy; revise

GA - SR901 State Health Benefit Plan; the coverage of IVF procedures; encourage

GA - HB947 Community Health, Department of; engage an actuary to conduct a study of the fiscal impact of carving out pharmacy benefits from the state's current Medicaid care management organizations; require

GA - SB500 Hospice Care; hospice administrators are not required to be health care professionals or trained in health services administration; provide