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AN ACT To amend Titles 16, 20, 26, and 31 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to crimes and offenses; education; food, drugs, and cosmetics; and health, respectively, so as to address opioid antagonists; to expand the exemption of naloxone from the definition of a dangerous drug to include any opioid antagonist when used for drug overdose prevention; to authorize the possession of opioid antagonists in schools; to provide a short title; to authorize schools to maintain a stock supply of opioid antagonists; to authorize trained school personnel to administer opioid antagonists and carry opioid antagonists on their person; to provide for immunity; to provide for activation of the emergency medical services system and notification of emergency contacts; to provide for educational resources, guidelines, policy, training, and immunity relative to opioid antagonists; to revise language relating to the prohibition on selling drugs through vending machines; to provide that practitioners may dispense and supply opioid antagonists to certain individuals and entities; to repeal the requirement that an opioid antagonist must have a prescription in order for a individual who administers it to have civil, criminal, and professional immunity; to provide immunity for harm reduction organizations that supply opioid antagonists to certain individuals; to require that certain buildings maintain and make accessible opioid antagonists; to provide for definitions; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

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Clint Dixon (R)*,  Sonya Halpern (D)*,  Brian Strickland (R)*,  Larry Walker (R)*,  Sam Watson (R)*,  Derrick McCollum (R), 

Act 462 (on 04/23/2024)

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