Georgia Rep. Sharon Cooper (R)

GA - Health & Human Services (House)

Title:

Chairman

GA - Judiciary Non-Civil (House)

Title:

Member

GA - Regulated Industries (House)

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Member

GA - Rules (House)

Title:

Member

GA - Special Committee On Access to Quality Health Care (House)

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Vice Chairman

GA - HB1038 Income tax; limit eligibility for rural physician tax credit to physicians who qualify on or before December 31, 2022

GA - HR1060 Low THC Program Revenue Allocation; commend

GA - HB752 Psychiatric Advance Directive Act; enact

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

GA - HB408 Property; dispossessory proceedings; revise procedures for the initiation of dispossessory actions

GA - HB307 Georgia Telehealth Act; revise

GA - HR1233 Shepherd, Chairman Jason M.; occasion of his retirement; recognize

GA - HB552 Insurance; health care sharing ministries; change a definition

GA - HR607 Cervical Health Awareness Month; January 2022; acknowledging that cervical cancer is preventable through regular screening, and encouraging all women to schedule well-woman exams and Pap+HPV (co-testing) cervical cancer screening; recognize

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

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

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

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

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

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

GA - HR726 Hemophilia of Georgia; commend

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 - HR586 Thomason, Matthew Dewitt, Jr.; commend

GA - HR972 Brain Awareness Week at the state capitol; March 14-20, 2022; recognize

GA - HR956 March of Dimes Foundation; March of Dimes Day at the capitol; March 9, 2022; recognize

GA - HR560 Tardive Dyskinesia Awareness Week; week of May 2, 2021; recognize

GA - HR856 Tardive Dyskinesia Awareness Week; May 1, 2022; recognize

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

GA - HR606 Self-Care Awareness Month; February 2022; recognize

GA - HR106 Gavalis, Mr. Joseph; Distinguished Older Georgian for 2021; commend

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

GA - HR191 World Spay Day; February 23, 2021; recognize

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

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

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

GA - HB605 Health; provide for authorized electronic monitoring in long-term care facilities

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

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

GA - HB567 Newborn Screening and Genetics Advisory Committee; create

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

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

GA - HB412 Professions and businesses; licensure of individuals in the practice of applied behavior analysis; provide

GA - HB628 Health; criminal background checks on individuals independently retained to provide personal care services for elderly persons who reside in a personal care home or assisted living facility; provide

GA - HB115 Insurance; prohibit certain insurers from using information derived from genetic testing for any nontherapeutic purpose in the absence of a diagnosis of a condition related to such information

GA - HB562 Criminal procedure; add DFCS case managers to people for whom arrest warrants may be issued only by certain judicial officers

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 - HB1348 Georgia Smoke-free Air Act; revise

GA - HB1376 Food, drugs, and cosmetics; food service establishments to serve patrons' pet dogs within designated outdoor areas; authorize

GA - HB1353 Criminal procedure; evaluations to determine mental competency to stand trial; provisions

GA - HB1274 State government; antisemitism; provide definition

GA - HB1355 Childhood Lead Exposure Control Act; revise

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

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

GA - HB1304 Georgia Caregivers Act; create

GA - HB1013 Mental Health Parity Act; enact

GA - HB918 Georgia Rare Disease Advisory Council; provide establishment

GA - HB1533 Professions and businesses; professional programs that address career fatigue and wellness in healthcare professionals are not obligated to report to licensing boards except in certain circumstances; provide

GA - HB1554 Public Health, Department of; conduct surveys of children and youth on identified core measures to promote healthy living and for use in accessing applicable federal funds; require

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

GA - HB1436 Long-term Care Ombudsman Program; long-term care facilities post certain notice on their websites; require

GA - HB1523 Giving the Gift of Life Act; enact

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

GA - HB1520 Georgia Council on Addressing Health Care Workforce Challenges; create

GA - HB1538 Smyrna, City of; annexation of certain territory into city boundaries; provide

GA - HB74 Crimes and offenses; unlawful to defraud a creditor's rights to deed or otherwise transfer title to real property to another person; provide

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

GA - HB697 Health care data collection; hospitals maintain certain technology; provisions

GA - HB99 Restroom Access Act; enact

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

GA - HB383 State government; certain contracts; Israel; provisions

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

GA - HB510 Income tax; provide for a nonrefundable earned income tax credit

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

GA - HB514 Insurance; Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; update references

GA - HB509 Insurance; require certain insurers to make at least one reasonably priced comprehensive major medical health insurance policy available

GA - HB841 East Cobb, City of; incorporate

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

GA - HB112 Torts; provide certain immunities from liability claims regarding COVID-19; extend applicability for one year

GA - HB454 Insurance; certain coverage requirements concerning providers that become out-of-network during a plan year; provide

GA - HB823 Prescription Drug Rebate Financial Protection Act; enact

GA - HB363 Crimes and offenses; protection of elder persons; revise definitions

GA - HB164 Prescription Drug Consumer Financial Protection Act; enact

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

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

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

GA - HR1046 Crumly, William; one of the best basketball players to ever play for the Covenant College Scots in its 65 years existance; commend

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

GA - HR232 Coopwood, Wallace T.; condolences

GA - HR141 Georgia Speech-Language-Hearing Association; commend

GA - HR1035 Maternal Mental Health Day in Georgia; May 4, 2022; recognize

GA - HR139 Georgia Academy of Audiology; commend

GA - HR768 House Study Committee on Expanding Long-Term Care Options; create

GA - HR932 Vogel, Carley; Miss Cobb County 2022; commend

GA - HR791 Takeda Pharmaceuticals America Inc.; commend

GA - HR670 Isakson, Senator John "Johnny" Hardy; condolences

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

GA - HR83 Long, Inez S.; commend

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

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

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

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

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

GA - SB82 Emergency Medical Services; prudent layperson standard is not affected by the final diagnosis given; clarify

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

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