Committee
Georgia Senate Health and Human Services Committee
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committee members
Matt Brass (R)
Ex-Officio
Bill Cowsert (R)
Sonya Halpern (D)
Sally Harrell (D)
Bo Hatchett (R)
Ex-Officio
Mike Hodges (R)
Chuck Hufstetler (R)
Ex-Officio
John Kennedy (R)
Vice Chair
Kay Kirkpatrick (R)
David Lucas (D)
Randal Mangham (D)
Nikki Merritt (D)
Nan Orrock (D)
Secretary
Ed Setzler (R)
Brian Strickland (R)
Ex-Officio
Larry Walker (R)
Chair
Ben Watson (R)
| Bill | Bill Name | Progress | Referral Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| HB89 | Public Health, Department of; require healthcare providers, facilities, and pharmacies to provide the Maternal Mortality Review Committee with psychiatric or other clinical records | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/04/2025 |
| HB154 | Emergency medical services; designate ambulance services as an essential service | Crossed Over | 03/06/2025 |
| HB227 | Putting Georgia's Patients First Act; enact | Crossed Over | 02/28/2025 |
| HB262 | Community Health, Department of; grant program for purpose of acquiring and installing backup generators; provide | Crossed Over | 03/04/2025 |
| HB291 | Health; certification of community health workers; provide | Crossed Over | 03/10/2025 |
| HB329 | Professional and businesses; authorize certified nurse practitioners and physician assistants to perform artificial insemination | Crossed Over | 02/28/2025 |
| HB352 | Georgia Gestational Diabetes Management Act; enact | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/26/2025 |
| HB428 | Health; codify right to in vitro fertilization for individuals | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/28/2025 |
| HB471 | Health; licensed general hospitals and birthing centers make available a water safety education video to parents or guardians of newborn infants; require | Crossed Over | 03/10/2025 |
| HB473 | Controlled substances; Schedule I; provide certain provisions | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/04/2025 |
| HB506 | Social services; Medicaid coverage for tobacco cessation treatments; provide | Crossed Over | 03/10/2025 |
| HB567 | Professions and businesses; authorize and regulate teledentistry by licensed dentists | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/10/2025 |
| HB584 | Health; reassign licensing and oversight of certain treatments and programs from Departments of Community Health to Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/06/2025 |
| HB645 | Health; COVID-19 testing of staff members in long term-care facilities; repeal certain provisions | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/10/2025 |
| SB6 | Controlled Substances; determine whether a controlled substance has been adulterated; authorize the use of testing equipment | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/15/2025 |
| SB30 | Hospitals and Related Institutions; hormone therapies and puberty-blocking medications for certain purposes to minors; prohibit prescribing or administering | Crossed Over | 01/28/2025 |
| SB58 | "Georgia Transporting Life-Saving Organs and Personnel Act"; enact | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/30/2025 |
| SB72 | "Hope for Georgia Patients Act"; enact | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/04/2025 |
| SB80 | Tax Credits; the definition of "rural hospital organization"; revise | In Committee | 02/04/2025 |
| 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 | Crossed Over | 02/05/2025 |
| SB95 | Certificate of Need Program; an exemption from certificate of need requirements concerning life plan communities; revise | In Committee | 02/05/2025 |
| SB101 | Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy; testing in the newborn screening system; require | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/06/2025 |
| SB113 | Georgia Composite Board of Professional Counselors, Social Workers, and Marriage and Family Therapists; establish a professional health program; authorize | In Committee | 02/06/2025 |
| SB130 | Health; medical education funding and the service cancelable loan program; expand | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/11/2025 |
| SB140 | Optometrists; doctors of optometry to dispense and sell pharmaceutical agents to patients under certain conditions; provide | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/11/2025 |
| SB158 | Commission for Blind and Visually Disabled Persons; create | In Committee | 02/13/2025 |
| SB169 | Professions and Businesses; certain education and training requirements for the performance of dry needling; provide | In Committee | 02/18/2025 |
| SB186 | Hospitals and Related Institutions; assisted living communities and personal care homes to enroll as Medicaid providers; permit | In Committee | 02/19/2025 |
| SB188 | Georgia Adult and Aging Services Agency; create | In Committee | 02/19/2025 |
| SB195 | Pharmacies; pharmacists are authorized to dispense preexposure prophylaxis and postexposure prophylaxis under certain conditions; provide | Crossed Over | 02/19/2025 |
| SB196 | "Pregnancy Center Fraud Prevention Act"; enact | In Committee | 02/19/2025 |
| SB197 | "End Public Funding of Misinformation Act"' enact | In Committee | 02/19/2025 |
| SB220 | "Putting Georgia's Patients First Act"; enact | Crossed Over | 02/20/2025 |
| SB222 | Commission for the Blind and the Visually Impaired; create | In Committee | 02/21/2025 |
| SB233 | Behavioral Health Reform and Innovation Commission; revise the subcommittees | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/24/2025 |
| SB258 | Access to Midwife-led Birth Centers Grant Program; establish | In Committee | 02/27/2025 |
| SB269 | Mental Illness; certain procedures and notifications for involuntary outpatient commitments; provide | In Committee | 02/27/2025 |
| SB277 | Drug Abuse Treatment and Education Programs; definition of drugs to include alcohol and its derivatives; revise | In Committee | 02/27/2025 |
| SB287 | Medical Assistance; Georgia Interested Parties Advisory Group within the Department of Community Health; create and establish a purpose | In Committee | 02/27/2025 |
| SB288 | Disclosure of Certain Information; certain examinations on an anesthetized or unconscious patient without prior informed consent; prohibit | In Committee | 02/27/2025 |
| SB290 | Health; certification of community health workers; provide | In Committee | 02/27/2025 |
| SB307 | Physicians, Assistants; continuing education requirements for all physicians to include one hour on maternal health; provide | In Committee | 02/28/2025 |
| SB308 | Medical Assistance; Medicaid coverage of postpartum maternal mental health care services; provide | In Committee | 02/28/2025 |
| SB314 | "Wholesale Prescription Drug Importation Act"; enact | In Committee | 03/03/2025 |
| 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 | In Committee | 03/06/2025 |
| SB326 | Handicapped Persons; a program for support service providers to assist blind and deaf-blind individuals in navigating employment and higher education opportunities; provide | In Committee | 03/10/2025 |
| SB360 | Public Assistance; public option buy-in program to provide healthcare coverage to individuals not eligible for Medicaid coverage; provide | In Committee | 03/27/2025 |
| SR84 | Right to Reproductive Freedom; provide | In Committee | 02/03/2025 |
| SR191 | Black Maternal Health Statistics; recognize | In Committee | 02/18/2025 |
| SR290 | Risk Assessment; culturally competent risk assessment tools; targeted public health initiatives, and enhanced healthcare interventions; recognize the need | In Committee | 02/27/2025 |
| SR342 | Senate Study Committee on Certified Peer Specialists, Addiction Recovery Programs, and Protocols; create | In Committee | 03/06/2025 |
| SR344 | Senate Study Committee on a Single-payer Healthcare Program; create | In Committee | 03/06/2025 |
| SR347 | Jadassohn, Josef; recognize | In Committee | 03/06/2025 |
| SR372 | Stomach Cancer; increased awareness; express support | In Committee | 03/11/2025 |
| SR381 | Autoimmune Disease Awareness Month; recognize March 2025 | In Committee | 03/13/2025 |
| SR398 | Black Midwives Day; recognize March 14, 2025 | In Committee | 03/18/2025 |