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2,457 captured recordsJanuary 11, 2021–April 3, 2026

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This archive checks every non-attendance roll call in the configured Georgia General Assembly sessions and retains a position only when the official member ID appears and all named positions reconcile to the published totals. Yea, Nay, Not Voting, and Excused remain separate; sponsorship, attendance, omission, and chamber outcome are never inferred as positions.

Procedural votes, amendments, nominations, resolutions, final-passage votes, executive actions, and official statements remain separately labeled. A statement or department announcement is not converted into a legislative vote or proof that the officeholder personally performed the underlying work.

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These are descriptive counts from captured official records, not an ideology, effectiveness, or intent score. Subject labels are navigation aids assigned from official measure text. A vote does not establish why the candidate voted that way or support for every provision in a measure.

Vote events: 2,457
Unique measures: 1,935
Final passage: 1,787
All Yes / No events: 2,347 / 76

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Healthcare2 recorded events
HB 350 — Domestic relations; safe places for newborns; revise provisions
Concurrence in chamber amendments · Voted yes on concurrence: 1 · Final passage · Voted yes: 1 · February 3, 2026–April 3, 2026
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A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 19 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to domestic relations, so as to revise provisions relating to safe places for newborns; to authorize ambulance services to accept physical custody of a newborn; to authorize the placement of newborn safety devices; to…
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April 3, 2026 · Voted yes on concurrenceConcurrence in chamber amendments
HB 350 — Agree to Senate Substitute
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February 3, 2026 · Voted yesFinal passage
HB 350 — PASSAGE
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Healthcare2 recorded events
HB 1138 — Increasing Access to Contraceptives Act; enact
Concurrence in chamber amendments · Voted yes on concurrence: 1 · Final passage · Voted yes: 1 · March 4, 2026–April 2, 2026
What this issue meant
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 3 of Chapter 4 of Title 26 of the O.C.G.A., relating to practice of pharmacy, so as to authorize pharmacists in certain circumstances to dispense self-administered hormonal contraceptives or administer injectable hormonal contraceptives; to amend Article 1 of Chapter 24 of…
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April 2, 2026 · Voted yes on concurrenceConcurrence in chamber amendments
HB 1138 — Agree to Senate Substitute
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March 4, 2026 · Voted yesFinal passage
HB 1138 — PASSAGE
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Healthcare2 recorded events
HB 1238 — Community Health, Department of; submit a waiver request to the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to authorize the qualification of certain caregivers for Medicaid reimbursement
Other recorded vote · Voted yes: 1 · Final passage · Voted yes: 1 · March 4, 2026–April 2, 2026
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A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 7 of Chapter 4 of Title 49 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to medical assistance generally, so as to direct the Department of Community Health to submit a waiver request to the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to authorize the…
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April 2, 2026 · Voted yesOther recorded vote
HB 1238 — Agree to Senate Sub as Am
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March 4, 2026 · Voted yesFinal passage
HB 1238 — PASSAGE
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Healthcare2 recorded events
HB 334 — Sickle Cell Disease Protection Act; enact
Concurrence in chamber amendments · Voted no on concurrence: 1 · Final passage · Voted yes: 1 · March 6, 2026–April 2, 2026
What this issue meant
A BILL To be entitled an Act to amend Article 7 of Chapter 4 of Title 49 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to medical assistance generally, so as to require the Department of Community Health to conduct an annual review of medications and treatment for sickle cell disease for Medicaid recipients; to provide for public input; to provide for an annual report; to provide for related matters; to provide for a short title; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
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April 2, 2026 · Voted no on concurrenceConcurrence in chamber amendments
HB 334 — Agree to Senate Substitute
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March 6, 2026 · Voted yesFinal passage
HB 334 — PASSAGE
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Healthcare2 recorded events
HB 506 — Social services; Medicaid coverage for tobacco cessation treatments; provide
Concurrence in chamber amendments · Voted yes on concurrence: 1 · Final passage · Voted no: 1 · March 6, 2025–April 2, 2026
What this issue meant
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 7 of Chapter 4 of Title 49 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to medical assistance generally, so as to provide Medicaid coverage for tobacco cessation treatments; to provide for requirements; to provide for submission of a state plan amendment or waiver, if necessary; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
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April 2, 2026 · Voted yes on concurrenceConcurrence in chamber amendments
HB 506 — Agree to Senate Substitute
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March 6, 2025 · Voted noFinal passage
HB 506 — PASSAGE
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Healthcare1 recorded event
SB 440 — Department of Public Health; provisions relative to duties or functions; modernize and update
Final passage · Voted yes: 1 · April 2, 2026–April 2, 2026
What this issue meant
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Titles 16, 19, 31, 48, and 49 of the O.C.G.A., relating to crimes and offenses, domestic relations, health, revenue and taxation, and social services, respectively, so as to modernize and update provisions relative to duties or functions of the Department of Public Health; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
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April 2, 2026 · Voted yesFinal passage
SB 440 — PASSAGE
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Healthcare2 recorded events
HB 1275 — Medical practice; ensure that stem cell therapies are used to advance medical treatments and improve patient outcomes in an ethical manner that does not involve stem cells derived from aborted fetuses
Concurrence in chamber amendments · Voted yes on concurrence: 1 · Final passage · Voted yes: 1 · March 4, 2026–March 31, 2026
What this issue meant
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 34 of Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to medical practice, so as to ensure that stem cell therapies are used to advance medical treatments and improve patient outcomes in an ethical manner that does not involve stem cells derived…
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March 31, 2026 · Voted yes on concurrenceConcurrence in chamber amendments
HB 1275 — Agree to Senate Substitute
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March 4, 2026 · Voted yesFinal passage
HB 1275 — PASSAGE
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Healthcare1 recorded event
HR 1007 — House of Representatives; effectiveness of arts for health initiatives in improving mental health outcomes; acknowledge
Final passage · Voted yes: 1 · March 31, 2026–March 31, 2026
What this issue meant
A RESOLUTION acknowledging the effectiveness of arts for health initiatives in improving mental health outcomes; and for other purposes.
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March 31, 2026 · Voted yesFinal passage
HR 1007 — ADOPT
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SB 587 — Offenses Against Public Health and Morals; the establishment of an animal cruelty database; provide
Final passage · Voted yes: 1 · March 31, 2026–March 31, 2026
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A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 12 of Title 16 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions regarding offenses against public health and morals, so as to provide for the establishment of an animal cruelty database; to provide for purpose and funding; to require…
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March 31, 2026 · Voted yesFinal passage
SB 587 — PASSAGE
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Healthcare2 recorded events
HB 1097 — Mental health; criminal background, license status, and registry checks for owners, applicants, and employees of certain mental health facilities; provide
Concurrence in chamber amendments · Voted yes on concurrence: 1 · Final passage · Voted yes: 1 · February 26, 2026–March 27, 2026
What this issue meant
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 37 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to mental health, so as to provide for criminal background, license status, and registry checks for owners, applicants, and employees of certain mental health facilities; to provide for the Department of Behavioral Health…
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March 27, 2026 · Voted yes on concurrenceConcurrence in chamber amendments
HB 1097 — Agree to Senate Substitute
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February 26, 2026 · Voted yesFinal passage
HB 1097 — PASSAGE
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Healthcare4 recorded events
HB 717 — Medical Practice Act; regulation of the administration of psychedelic-assisted treatment and therapy; provide
Concurrence in chamber amendments · Voted yes on concurrence: 1 · Final passage · Voted yes: 2 · Other procedural vote · Voted yes: 1 · March 3, 2026–March 27, 2026
What this issue meant
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 34 of Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the "Medical Practice Act of the State of Georgia," so as to provide for the regulation of the administration of psychedelic-assisted treatment and therapy; to provide for definitions; to…
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March 27, 2026 · Voted yes on concurrenceConcurrence in chamber amendments
HB 717 — Agree to Senate Substitute
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March 6, 2026 · Voted yesFinal passage
HB 717 — PASSAGE
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March 4, 2026 · Voted yesOther procedural vote
HB 717 — Reconsider
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March 3, 2026 · Voted yesFinal passage
HB 717 — PASSAGE
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Healthcare1 recorded event
SB 146 — Health, Local Government, and Property; regulations and protections of cemeteries and burial grounds; provide
Final passage · Voted yes: 1 · March 27, 2026–March 27, 2026
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A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Titles 31, 36, and 44 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to health, local government, and property, respectively, so as to provide regulations and protections of cemeteries and burial grounds; to revise procedures concerning the issuance of permits for the…
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March 27, 2026 · Voted yesFinal passage
SB 146 — PASSAGE
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Healthcare1 recorded event
SB 433 — "Rio's Law"
Final passage · Voted yes: 1 · March 25, 2026–March 25, 2026
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A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 3 of Chapter 2 of Title 40 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to prestige license plates and special plates for certain persons and vehicles, so as to provide for special license plates for persons with autism spectrum disorder or a developmental disability…
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March 25, 2026 · Voted yesFinal passage
SB 433 — PASSAGE
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Healthcare2 recorded events
SB 220 — "Putting Georgia's Patients First Act"; enact
Other recorded vote · Voted no: 1 · Final passage · Excused absence: 1 · March 12, 2026–March 23, 2026
What this issue meant
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend various provisions of the O.C.G.A., so as to rename low THC oil as medical cannabis; to amend Chapter 12 of Title 16, Article 2 of Chapter 13 of Title 16, and Article 1 of Chapter 2A of Title 31 of the O.C.G.A., relating to offenses against the public health and morals, regulation…
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March 23, 2026 · Voted noOther recorded vote
SB 220 — Agree to Senate Amend to House Sub
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March 12, 2026 · Excused absenceFinal passage
SB 220 — PASSAGE
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Healthcare1 recorded event
SB 395 — Department of Public Health; eligible for the Low THC Oil Patient Registry; require a physician to submit certain information to the Georgia Composite Medical Board
Final passage · Voted yes: 1 · March 23, 2026–March 23, 2026
What this issue meant
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 2A of Title 31 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the Department of Public Health, so as to require a physician to submit certain information to the Georgia Composite Medical Board when certifying an individual as eligible for the Low THC Oil Patient…
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March 23, 2026 · Voted yesFinal passage
SB 395 — PASSAGE
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SB 428 — Medical Assistance; Department of Community Health to submit a waiver request to the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; direct
Final passage · Voted yes: 1 · March 23, 2026–March 23, 2026
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A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 7 of Chapter 4 of Title 49 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to medical assistance generally, so as to direct the Department of Community Health to submit a waiver request to the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to authorize the…
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March 23, 2026 · Voted yesFinal passage
SB 428 — PASSAGE
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SB 500 — Behavioral Health Care Workforce Data Base; expand to include data from licensed health care professionals
Final passage · Voted yes: 1 · March 23, 2026–March 23, 2026
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A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 10 of Title 49 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the Georgia Board of Health Care Workforce, so as to expand the Behavioral Health Care Workforce Data Base to include data from licensed health care professionals; to revise definitions; to rename such data base as the Health Care Workforce Data Base; to provide for conforming changes; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
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March 23, 2026 · Voted yesFinal passage
SB 500 — PASSAGE
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HB 185 — Professions and businesses; repeal and reenact Chapter 11A, the Dietetics Practice Act
Concurrence in chamber amendments · Voted yes on concurrence: 1 · Final passage · Voted yes: 1 · March 6, 2025–March 18, 2026
What this issue meant
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to professions and businesses, so as to repeal and reenact Chapter 11A, the "Dietetics Practice Act"; to amend Titles 9, 31, 33, 43, and 51 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to civil practice, health,…
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March 18, 2026 · Voted yes on concurrenceConcurrence in chamber amendments
HB 185 — Agree to Senate Substitute
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March 6, 2025 · Voted yesFinal passage
HB 185 — PASSAGE
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Healthcare1 recorded event
SB 383 — Child Abuse; local child fatality review committees; modify the review
Final passage · Voted yes: 1 · March 18, 2026–March 18, 2026
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A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 15 of Title 19 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to child abuse, so as to modify the review to be performed by local child fatality review committees; to add members to such committees; to provide for required attendance for training; to clarify the scope…
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March 18, 2026 · Voted yesFinal passage
SB 383 — PASSAGE
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SB 399 — "Mason Sells AED Coordination Act"; enact
Final passage · Voted yes: 1 · March 18, 2026–March 18, 2026
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A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 3 of Chapter 11 of Title 31 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to personnel of emergency medical services, so as to provide for notification to public safety answering points about the location of automated external defibrillators; to provide for rules and…
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March 18, 2026 · Voted yesFinal passage
SB 399 — PASSAGE
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SB 427 — Physicians; limited provisional licenses and a pathway to licensure for certain internationally trained physicians; provide
Final passage · Voted yes: 1 · March 18, 2026–March 18, 2026
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A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 34 of Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to medical practice relative to physicians, so as to provide for limited provisional licenses and a pathway to licensure for certain internationally trained physicians; to provide for…
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March 18, 2026 · Voted yesFinal passage
SB 427 — PASSAGE
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SB 535 — Mental Health; the re-creation of community service boards; provide
Final passage · Voted yes: 1 · March 16, 2026–March 16, 2026
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A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 37 of the O.C.G.A., relating to mental health, so as to provide for the re-creation of community service boards; to amend Code Section 50-14-1 of the O.C.G.A., relating to meetings open to the public, limitation on action to contest agency action, recording, notice of time…
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March 16, 2026 · Voted yesFinal passage
SB 535 — PASSAGE
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HR 948 — House Study Committee on Pharmacy Benefits Managers and Consumer Access to Prescription Medications; create
Final passage · Voted yes: 1 · March 9, 2026–March 9, 2026
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A RESOLUTION creating the House Study Committee on Pharmacy Benefits Managers and Consumer Access to Prescription Medications; and for other purposes.
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March 9, 2026 · Voted yesFinal passage
HR 948 — ADOPT
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HB 1446 — Health; transfer responsibility for oversight of emergency medical services from Department of Public Health to Georgia Emergency Medical Services and Trauma Council
Final passage · Voted yes: 1 · Other procedural vote · Voted yes: 1 · March 6, 2026–March 6, 2026
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A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 11 of Title 31 of the O.C.G.A., relating to emergency medical services, so as to transfer responsibility for the oversight of emergency medical services from the Department of Public Health to the Georgia Emergency Medical Services and Trauma Council; to provide for…
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March 6, 2026 · Voted yesFinal passage
HB 1446 — PASSAGE
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March 6, 2026 · Voted yesOther procedural vote
HB 1446 — Reconsider
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Healthcare1 recorded event
HB 951 — Insurance; require health benefit policy coverage for medically necessary orthotic and prosthetic devices and their materials and components
Final passage · Voted yes: 1 · March 6, 2026–March 6, 2026
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A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 24 of Title 33 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to insurance generally, so as to require health benefit plans, policies, or contracts executed by the state to cover medically necessary orthotic devices and prosthetic devices and their materials and components; to revise a definition; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
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March 6, 2026 · Voted yesFinal passage
HB 951 — PASSAGE
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What this archive contains

208 measures

HB 350 — Domestic relations; safe places for newborns; revise provisions

HB 1138 — Increasing Access to Contraceptives Act; enact

HB 1238 — Community Health, Department of; submit a waiver request to the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to authorize the qualification of certain caregivers for Medicaid reimbursement

HB 334 — Sickle Cell Disease Protection Act; enact

HB 506 — Social services; Medicaid coverage for tobacco cessation treatments; provide

SB 440 — Department of Public Health; provisions relative to duties or functions; modernize and update

HB 1275 — Medical practice; ensure that stem cell therapies are used to advance medical treatments and improve patient outcomes in an ethical manner that does not involve stem cells derived from aborted fetuses

HR 1007 — House of Representatives; effectiveness of arts for health initiatives in improving mental health outcomes; acknowledge

SB 587 — Offenses Against Public Health and Morals; the establishment of an animal cruelty database; provide

HB 1097 — Mental health; criminal background, license status, and registry checks for owners, applicants, and employees of certain mental health facilities; provide

HB 717 — Medical Practice Act; regulation of the administration of psychedelic-assisted treatment and therapy; provide

SB 146 — Health, Local Government, and Property; regulations and protections of cemeteries and burial grounds; provide

SB 433 — "Rio's Law"

SB 220 — "Putting Georgia's Patients First Act"; enact

SB 395 — Department of Public Health; eligible for the Low THC Oil Patient Registry; require a physician to submit certain information to the Georgia Composite Medical Board

SB 428 — Medical Assistance; Department of Community Health to submit a waiver request to the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; direct

SB 500 — Behavioral Health Care Workforce Data Base; expand to include data from licensed health care professionals

HB 185 — Professions and businesses; repeal and reenact Chapter 11A, the Dietetics Practice Act

SB 383 — Child Abuse; local child fatality review committees; modify the review

SB 399 — "Mason Sells AED Coordination Act"; enact

SB 427 — Physicians; limited provisional licenses and a pathway to licensure for certain internationally trained physicians; provide

SB 535 — Mental Health; the re-creation of community service boards; provide

HR 948 — House Study Committee on Pharmacy Benefits Managers and Consumer Access to Prescription Medications; create

HB 1446 — Health; transfer responsibility for oversight of emergency medical services from Department of Public Health to Georgia Emergency Medical Services and Trauma Council

HB 951 — Insurance; require health benefit policy coverage for medically necessary orthotic and prosthetic devices and their materials and components