- HB 49Georgia Board for Physicians Workforce; revise certain provisions
- HB 60Licensing requirements and exceptions; professional counseling, social work, or marriage and family therapy; provisions
- HB 64Death certificate filings; cause and circumstances of death; provisions
- (1) Sims,Chuck 169th
- HB 69Cardiopulmonary resuscitation; nonresuscitation; provide
- HB 180Public health and morals; tattooing near the eye; change certain provisions
- HB 194Brand name drugs; substitute generic drugs; provisions
- HB 217Physicians; influenza vaccine orders; provisions
- HB 237Human Resources, Department of; financial assistance for adoptive parents; revise provision
- HB 325Emergency medical services personnel applicants; fingerprinting and criminal background investigations; require
- HB 361Safe Medications Practice Act; enact
- HB 368Controlled substances; Schedule II, III, and IV; change certain provisions
- HB 457Disabled adults and elder persons; revise definition; acts in long-term care facilities unlawful; provide
- HB 509Professions and businesses; regulation; change provisions
- HB 866Physicians for Rural Areas Assistance Act; enact
- HB 1021Dangerous drugs; Salvia divinorum A; include
- HB 1040Georgia Registered Professional Nurse Practice Act; certain health activities not require license; provisions
- HB 1119Georgia Arthritis Prevention and Control Act; enact
- HB 1154Influenza vaccine; revise definition
- HB 1179Influenza vaccinations; hospitals offer annually to employees; require
- HB 1309Controlled substances; add synthetic cannabinoids to Schedule I list; provide
- HB 1310Brain and Spinal Injury Trust Commission; may solicit funds; provide
- HB 1314Georgia Council on Developmental Disabilities; regulate developmental accounts; provisions
- HB 1407Medicaid and PeachCare for Kids; single administrator for dental services; provisions
- SB 8Student Health; provide for possession/self-administration of auto-injectable epinephrine by students
- SB 10Controlled Substance; definition of a dangerous drug; remove the exception for pseudoephedrine in single dose; 60 milligrams or less
- (1) Douglas,John 17th
- (2) Thomas,Don 54th
- (3) Hawkins,Lee 49th
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Status:01/14/09 - Senate Recommitted - SB 133Health Share Volunteers in Medicine Act; provide certain compensation; health care provider; sovereign immunity protection
- SB 146Community Health Dept. required to contract with a single administrator for dental services
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Status:01/11/10 - Senate Recommitted - SB 156Georgia Trauma Care Network Commission; extensively revise duties; definitions; funding priorities; abolish Georgia Trauma Trust Fund
- SB 159Hemophilia Advisory Board Act; create; provide for duties, reporting, membership, selection of officers
- SB 163Human Resources Commissioner; authorize to appoint a diabetes coordinator
- (1) Balfour,Don 9th
- (2) Harbison,Ed 15th
- (3) Thomas,Don 54th
- (4) Orrock,Nan 36th
- SB 165Community Health; authorized to obtain income eligibility verification from Revenue Dept.; Medicaid and PeachCare for Kids Program
- SB 169Ethical Treatment of Human Embryos; unlawful for any person to knowingly create an in vitro human embryo by any means
- SB 179Georgia Trauma Care Network Commission; definition; funding priorities; revise provisions
- (1) Jackson,Bill 24th
- (2) Thomas,Don 54th
- (3) Tarver,Ed 22nd
- (4) Murphy,Jack 27th
- (5) Staton,Cecil 18th
- (6) Johnson,Eric 1st
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Status:02/19/09 - Senate Read and Referred - SB 201Health; provide voluntary contributions through individual income tax returns for cancer research
- SB 204Snowflakes Adoption Act; provide exclusive means of adopting human embryos
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Status:02/25/09 - Senate Read and Referred - SB 244Ga. Registered Professional Nurse Practice Act; performance of health maintenance act. by a designated caregiver shall not be prohibited
- SB 252Polysomnography Practice Act; provide for the certification of polysomnographic technologists
- (1) Thomas,Don 54th
- (2) Goggans,Greg 7th
- (3) Mullis,Jeff 53rd
- (4) Unterman,Renee 45th
- (5) Hill,Jack 4th
- SB 262Dentistry Services; indigent patients; continuing education hours; provide waiver
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Status:03/12/09 - Senate Read and Referred - SB 289Social Services; services/treatment for categorically needy/medically fragile children; revise provisions; add definition
- (1) Moody,Dan 56th
- (2) Thomas,Don 54th
- (3) Seay,Valencia 34th
- (4) Orrock,Nan 36th
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Status:04/03/09 - Senate Read and Referred - SB 315Uniform Emergency Volunteer Health Practitioners Act; enactment; definitions; regulations
- SB 344"'Health Share' Volunteers in Medicine Act"; provide sovereign immunity protection for physician assistants in safety net clinics
- SB 353Controlled Substances; Schedule I, II, IV, and V; definition of "dangerous drug"; provisions
- SB 356Social Services; eligibility for assistance; change certain provisions
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Status:02/03/10 - Senate Read and Referred - SB 357Social Services; medical assistance; suspend, rather than terminate an individual's Medicaid benefits while incarcerated
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Status:02/03/10 - Senate Read and Referred - SB 367Influenza; revise the definition of "influenza vaccine"
- SB 412Georgia eHealth Advisory Council; create; composition; powers; provide strategic plan and annual reports
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Status:02/16/10 - Senate Read and Referred - SB 418Controlled Substances; establishment of a program; monitoring of prescribing/dispensing Schedule II, III, IV, or V
- SB 425Mental Health Admin.; revise definition of health services; community service boards; limit eligibility to be appointed; revise the min. number
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Status:03/09/10 - Senate Read Second Time - SB 430'Nurse Licensure Compact'; provide multistate licensures to practice telephonic nursing as a registered nurse; qualifications, sanctions
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Status:02/18/10 - Senate Read and Referred - SB 435"Diabetes and Health Improvement Act of 2010"; enact; establish Georgia Diabetes Control Office; board of trustees
- SB 443Medicaid Care Management Organization Legislative Oversight Committee; create
- SB 459Social Services; provide for a single administrator for dental services for Medicaid recipients/PeachCare for Kids participants
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Status:03/09/10 - Senate Read and Referred - SB 493Vital Records; provide for execution of death certificates for burn victims
- SB 498Controlled Substances; add synthetic cannabinoids; "synthetic marijuana" or "K2" to Schedule I controlled substances list
- SR 56Joint Vulnerable Adult Study Committee; create
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Status:01/26/09 - Senate Read and Referred - SR 57Georgia Vulnerable Adult Study Commission; create; membership; duties
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Status:04/01/09 - Senate Passed/Adopted - SR 156Freedom of Choice Act; opposing
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Status:04/01/09 - Senate Passed/Adopted - SR 257Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias Task Force; create
- (1) Thomas,Don 54th
- (2) Orrock,Nan 36th
- (3) Johnson,Eric 1st
- (4) Unterman,Renee 45th
- (5) Weber,Dan 40th
- (6) Heath,Bill 31st
- SR 263President/U.S. Congress; urged to provide support to strengthen Georgia's public health infrastructure
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Status:03/04/09 - Senate Passed/Adopted - SR 281U.S. Congress; urged to enact the Prevention First Act (H.R. 463/S.21)
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Status:02/12/09 - Senate Read and Referred - SR 291National Childhood Brain Tumor Prevention Network Act; urge President/U.S. Congress to support legislative efforts to enact
- SR 300Community Health; urged to work in conjunction with state-wide medical organizations; pediatric physicians; proper care for pre-term infants
- (1) Goggans,Greg 7th
- (2) Cowsert,Bill 46th
- (3) Thomas,Don 54th
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Status:03/12/09 - Senate Passed/Adopted - SR 328Georgia Senate; urged to acknowledge a paramount right to life and need for protection of innocent human life at every stage of life
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Status:04/01/09 - Senate Passed/Adopted - SR 331Health Care Transformation; create Joint Study Committee
- (1) Hill,Judson 32nd
- (2) Thomas,Don 54th
- SR 399Georgia Nonprofit Organizations and Their Governmental Partnerships; create Senate Study Committee
- (1) Thomas,Don 54th
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Status:04/01/09 - Senate Passed/Adopted - SR 456Blood Pressure Down Shift Program; create Senate Study Committee
- (1) Mullis,Jeff 53rd
- (2) Murphy,Jack 27th
- (3) Thomas,Don 54th
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Status:04/01/09 - Senate Passed/Adopted - SR 476Advance Directives Assessment, Planning, and Oversight; create Senate Study Committee
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Status:04/01/09 - Senate Passed/Adopted - SR 505U.S. Congress; urged to eliminate 24 month waiting period for participants in Social Security Disability Insurance
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Status:04/01/09 - Senate Passed/Adopted - SR 506Mental Health Continuum Care; create Senate Study Committee
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Status:04/01/09 - Senate Passed/Adopted - SR 635Georgia Health Disparities for Asian and Pacific Islander Americans; create Senate Study Committee
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Status:04/01/09 - Senate Passed/Adopted - SR 641Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation; create Senate Study Committee
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Status:04/01/09 - Senate Passed/Adopted - SR 642Consolidation of Services for Crime Victims; create Senate Study Committee
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Status:04/01/09 - Senate Passed/Adopted - SR 664Patient Centered Medical Home; create Senate Study Committee
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Status:04/01/09 - Senate Passed/Adopted - SR 665Senate Administration of Dental Benefits for Medicaid and PeachCare Study Committee; create
- SC:H&HS
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Status:04/01/09 - Senate Passed/Adopted - SR 672Autism; create Senate Study Committee
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Status:04/01/09 - Senate Passed/Adopted - SR 752Senate Emergency and Pandemic Preparedness and Response Study Committee; create
- SC:H&HS
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Status:04/03/09 - Senate Read and Referred - SR 915U.S. Congress, Health/Human Services; urged to ignore recent guidelines for breast cancer screenings; Preventive Services Task Force
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Status:04/27/10 - Senate Passed/Adopted - SR 986Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease; recognize growing incidence
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Status:04/27/10 - Senate Passed/Adopted - SR 1134Senate Health Care Transformation Study Committee; create
- (1) Hill,Judson 32nd
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Status:03/16/10 - Senate Read Second Time - SR 1162Senate Including Traumatic Brain Injury Facilities in State Health Plan Study Committee; create
- (1) Thomas,Don 54th
- (2) Goggans,Greg 7th
- (3) Hawkins,Lee 49th
- (4) Moody,Dan 56th
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Status:03/18/10 - Senate Read Second Time - SR 1222Georgia Composite Medical Board; urged to promulgate regulations
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Status:04/21/10 - Senate Passed/Adopted - SR 1367Senate Vulnerable Adult Study Committee; create
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Status:04/14/10 - Senate Read Second Time - SR 1538Georgia Department of Community Health; urged to require patient centered medical home pilot projects
- (1) Thomas,Don 54th
- (2) Goggans,Greg 7th
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Status:04/27/10 - Senate Read and Referred