GA General Assembly After Cross-over: Health and Insurance Bills

Georgia General Assembly 2011-2012 Session

Healthcare and Insurance Legislation

House Bills

HB 47: Health insurance; offer accident and sickness policies approved in other states; authorize

Mar/11/2011 – Senate Read and Referred

HB 66: Insurance; certificate of insurance forms approved by commissioner; provide

Mar/03/2011 – Senate Read and Referred

HB 132: Medical Food Equity Act; enact

Failed

HB 145: Georgia Physical Therapy Act; revise a definition

Feb/22/2011 – Senate Read and Referred

HB 147: Patient Right to Know Act of 2001; medical malpractice insurance; include

Mar/11/2011 – Senate Read and Referred

HB 167: Insurance Delivery Enhancement Act of 2011; enact

Mar/16/2011 – Senate Read and Referred

HB 182: Insurance; diagnosis and treatment of infertility; require health coverage

Failed

HB 184: Controlled substances; Electronic Database Review Advisory Committee; establish provisions

Failed

HB 187: Dental services; single administrator for Medicaid and PeachCare; provisions

Failed

HB 189: Noncovered Dental Services Act; enact

Mar/04/2011 – Senate Read and Referred

HB 199: Controlled substances; additional Schedule I substances; provide

Mar/10/2011 – Senate Read and Referred

HB 214: Public Health, Department of; establish

Mar/07/2011 – Senate Read and Referred

HB 226: Georgia Council on Developmental Disabilities; regulate individual accounts; provisions

Mar/16/2011 – Senate Read and Referred

HB 227: Student health; school personnel administer auto-injectable epinephrine; authorize

Mar/10/2011 – Senate Read and Referred

HB 229: Medicaid; hearings and appeals; final decision of law judge; provide

Failed

HB 231: Mental Health Addictive Disease Community Recovery Act; enact

Failed

HB 247: Community Health, Department of; fingerprint and investigate EMS personnel; require

Failed

HB 248: Health Care Sharing Ministries Freedom to Share Act; enact

Mar/16/2011 – Senate Read and Referred

HB 249: Health; pertussis disease information to parents of newborns; provide

Mar/08/2011 – Senate Read and Referred

HB 256: 9-1-1 system; regulation of charges on prepaid wireless services; provisions

Mar/16/2011 – Senate Read and Referred

HB 263: Health care facilities; surgical technologists requirements; provisions

Failed

HB 275: Cardiopulmonary resuscitation; authorized to order not to resuscitate; clarify

Mar/16/2011 – Senate Read and Referred

HB 278: Surgical or medical treatment; nourishment or hydration; provisions

Failed

HB 298: Insurance; small business investment company credit; establish

Failed

HB 299: DNA analysis; transfer provisions; expand types of samples collected; provisions

Failed

HB 303: Physicians assistants; delegation of authority by a physician; revise provisions

Mar/16/2011 – Senate Read and Referred

HB 307: Georgia Trauma Care Network Commission; burn centers and patients; provide

Mar/16/2011 – Senate Read and Referred

HB 339: Emergency powers; challenge of quarantine or vaccination order; revise courts; provisions

Mar/16/2011 – Senate Read and Referred

HB 341: Insurers; limited purpose subsidiary life insurance companies; establish

Mar/16/2011 – Senate Read and Referred

HB 343: Mental health; psychiatric stabilization or detoxification services; provide

Mar/16/2011 – Senate Read and Referred

HB 345: Medical assistance; lawfully qualified alien children and pregnant women; eligible

Failed

HB 347: Applicant examination; Commissioner not exempt self from written exams; provide

Mar/07/2011 – Senate Read and Referred

HB 361: Prescription drugs; pharmacist include prescription drug retail price on receipt; provide

Failed

HB 365: Insurance; subscription for prepaid air ambulance not contract of insurance; provide

Failed

HB 371: Insurable interest; state entity; not fund life insurance on public officers or employees; provide

Mar/16/2011 – Senate Read and Referred

HB 378: Hemophilia Advisory Board Act; enact

Failed

HB 380: Insurance; continuing care providers and facilities; extensively revise

Failed

HB 405: Health care facilities; regulation and licensing of assisted living communities; provide

Failed

HB 408: Student health; automated external defibrillators; require

Failed

HB 413: Surplus line insurance; revise law

Mar/16/2011 – Senate Read and Referred

HB 423: Unfair trade practices; certain residential contractors insurance claims; violations; provide

Mar/16/2011 – Senate Read and Referred

HB 426: Georgia Registered Professional Nurse Practice Act; revise a definition

Failed

HB 437: Controlled substances; possession of and sale of pseudoephedrine drugs; change provisions

Failed

HB 457: Controlled substances; remote automated medication systems; pharmacists; authorize use

Mar/16/2011 – Senate Read and Referred

HB 460: Psychiatric Advance Directive Act; enact

Failed

HB 461: Health Care Compact; adopt

Mar/16/2011 – Senate Read and Referred

HB 463: Limited licenses; insurance coverage on self-service storage; provide

Failed

HB 469: Pharmacists; hard copy prescriptions on security paper; define; require

Failed

HB 470: Registered professional nurse; requirements for preceptorship for applicants; revise

Mar/16/2011 – Senate Read and Referred

HB 476: Georgia Health Exchange Authority; establish

Failed

HB 477: Insurance; transition from annual to biennial license renewal; provide

Mar/16/2011 – Senate Read and Referred

HB 479: Private home care providers; arrangements with independent contractors; revise definition

Failed

HB 486: Insurance; prepaid air ambulance service not a contract of insurance; provide

Failed

HB 489: Medicaid audits; contingency fee audits; prohibit

Mar/16/2011 – Senate Read and Referred

HB 501: Volunteer Health Care Services Act; enact

Failed

HB 506: Insurance; payment or reimbursement of oral chemotherapy; provide

Failed

HB 509: State Medical Education Board; abolish

Mar/16/2011 – Senate Read and Referred

HB 513: Life insurance; group life insurance policy to approved groups; allow issuance

Failed

HB 548: Workers’ compensation; parties to franchise agreement not considered employees; provide

Failed

 

House Resolutions

HR 252: House Study Committee on Adult Mental Health and Disability Facilities; create

Failed

 

Senate Bills

SB 6: Insurance; premium taxes; group accident and sickness contracts; provisions; Georgia Individual High Risk Reinsurance Pool

Failed

SB 17: Insurance; establish the Special Advisory Commission on Mandated Health Insurance Benefits; membership, terms, meetings and duties

Mar/01/2011 – House Second Readers

SB 22: Governor; authorized/directed to apply for a federal waiver; medical loss ratio requirements in Georgia

Failed

SB 23: State Government; impose a moratorium on rule making; regard to implementation of federal Patient Protection and Affordable Act

Failed

SB 25: State Government; no department shall implement provision to health care reform legislation; unless dept. provide certain report to the General Assembly

Failed

SB 36: Controlled Substances; provide establishment of program to monitor prescribing/dispensing; Electronic Database Review Advisory Committee

Feb/28/2011 – House Second Readers

SB 39: Courts; create mental health court divisions; assignment of cases; provide for planning groups and work plans; standards

Mar/16/2011 – House First Readers

SB 63: Georgia Medical Assistance Fraud Prevention Program; enact

Mar/16/2011 – House First Readers

SB 66: Perfusionists; revise continuing education requirements; definition

Mar/04/2011 – House Second Readers

SB 67: Nurses; prohibit the use of the title “nurse” unless licensed as a registered professional nurse

Mar/03/2011 – House Second Readers

SB 76: Georgia Trauma Care Network Commission; revise provisions; uncompensated trauma care

Mar/16/2011 – House Second Readers

SB 80: Evidence; provide for DNA analysis of persons arrested for felony offenses

Mar/16/2011 – Senate Passed/Adopted

SB 81: Pharmacists; mental/physical examinations of licensees for the practice of pharmacy

Mar/14/2011 – House Second Readers

SB 93: Controlled Substances; Schedule I, III, IV, V; “dangerous drug”; provisions

Mar/16/2011 – Senate Passed/Adopted

SB 100: Georgia Registered Professional Nurse Practice Act; revise a definition

Mar/14/2011 – House Second Readers

SB 111: Pharmacists; electronic data prescription drug order; provide certain requirements for any electronic transmission mechanism

Failed

SB 135: Chiropractors; provide that no person other than a doctor of chiropractic may render chiropractic services

Mar/16/2011 – House First Readers

SB 143: Massage Therapy Practice; provide that an applicant for a license by endorsement shall provide certain information

Mar/16/2011 – Senate Passed/Adopted

SB 149: Georgia Medicaid Access Act; establish; provide for filing of a proposed complaint of a medical malpractice claim against a medical assistance provider

Failed

SB 166: Insurance; extensively revise the requirements for continuing care providers/facilities

Mar/16/2011 – Senate Passed/Adopted

SB 177: Health Care Compact; adopt

Mar/16/2011 – House First Readers

SB 178: Health Care Facilities; regulation/licensing of assisted living communities; procedures/criteria

Mar/16/2011 – House First Readers

SB 179: Radiographers, Radiation Therapists; provide for licensing; regulate; medical imaging/radiation therapy procedures; diagnostic or therapeutic purposes

Failed

SB 180: Controlled Substances; authorize the use of remote automated medication systems; definitions; requirements

Failed

SB 187: Georgia Registered Professional Nurse Practice Act; revise nursing education requirements for licensure as a registered nurse; provisions

Mar/16/2011 – Senate Passed/Adopted

SB 196: Private Home Care Providers; revise definition; exclude from the definition contractual arrangements with independent contractors

Failed

SB 199: Insurance; Commissioner shall have authority to impose penalties; licensed under Title 33; certain violations

Mar/16/2011 – Senate Passed/Adopted

SB 203: Insurance; provide that certain individuals who collect/input data; automated claims adjudication system are exempt from licensure

Mar/16/2011 – Senate Passed/Adopted

SB 209: Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act; enact; regulate the performance of abortions

Failed

SB 210: Torts; provide for liability for violations of laws relating to abortion; definitions; wrongful death of an unborn child

Mar/16/2011 – Senate Passed/Adopted

SB 211: Lead Poisoning Prevention; provide for certain federal regulations copies, fees, corrective orders, and violations

Mar/16/2011 – Senate Passed/Adopted

SB 215: Medicaid/PeachCare; convert program funds to premium assistance to allow low-income families to participate in private sector health insurance plans

Failed

SB 216: Insurance Commissioner; authorize insurers to offer individual medical/surgical health insurance policies in Georgia; approved for issuance in selected other states

Failed

SB 245: Mental Health; revise the definition of “developmental disability”

Mar/16/2011 – House First Readers

SB 251: Insurance; transition from an annual renewal to a biennial renewal of licenses; agents, counselors, adjusters; adjustment of licensing fees

Mar/16/2011 – Senate Passed/Adopted

SB 252: Insurance; provide Commissioner shall determine if insurer meets the definition of a reinsurer

Mar/16/2011 – Senate Passed/Adopted

SB 261: Licenses Plates; provide special license plate supporting certain prostate cancer related programs

Failed

 

Senate Resolutions

SR 19: Senate Study Committee on Advance Directives; create

Failed

SR 24: Georgia High Risk Individual Reinsurance Pool; provide allocation of a percent of premium taxes collected to offset losses- CA

Failed

SR 54: Health Care Transformation; senate study committee; create

Failed

SR 55: Health Care Freedom of Choice Constitutional Amendment-CA

Failed

Critical Cross-over Day in the Georgia General Assembly

Georgia General Assembly 2011-2012 Session

Healthcare and Insurance Legislation

House Bills

HB 47: Health insurance; offer accident and sickness policies approved in other states; authorize

HB 66: Insurance; certificate of insurance forms approved by commissioner; provide

HB 132: Medical Food Equity Act; enact

HB 145: Georgia Physical Therapy Act; revise a definition

HB 147: Patient Right to Know Act of 2001; medical malpractice insurance; include

HB 167: Insurance Delivery Enhancement Act of 2011; enact

HB 182: Insurance; diagnosis and treatment of infertility; require health coverage

HB 184: Controlled substances; Electronic Database Review Advisory Committee; establish provisions

HB 187: Dental services; single administrator for Medicaid and PeachCare; provisions

HB 189: Noncovered Dental Services Act; enact

HB 199: Controlled substances; additional Schedule I substances; provide

HB 214: Public Health, Department of; establish

HB 226: Georgia Council on Developmental Disabilities; regulate individual accounts; provisions

HB 227: Student health; school personnel administer auto-injectable epinephrine; authorize

HB 229: Medicaid; hearings and appeals; final decision of law judge; provide

HB 231: Mental Health Addictive Disease Community Recovery Act; enact

HB 247: Community Health, Department of; fingerprint and investigate EMS personnel; require

HB 248: Health Care Sharing Ministries Freedom to Share Act; enact

HB 249: Health; pertussis disease information to parents of newborns; provide

HB 256: 9-1-1 system; regulation of charges on prepaid wireless services; provisions

HB 263: Health care facilities; surgical technologists requirements; provisions

HB 275: Cardiopulmonary resuscitation; authorized to order not to resuscitate; clarify

HB 278: Surgical or medical treatment; nourishment or hydration; provisions

HB 298: Insurance; small business investment company credit; establish

HB 299: DNA analysis; transfer provisions; expand types of samples collected; provisions

HB 303: Physicians assistants; delegation of authority by a physician; revise provisions

HB 307: Georgia Trauma Care Network Commission; burn centers and patients; provide

HB 339: Emergency powers; challenge of quarantine or vaccination order; revise courts; provisions

HB 341: Insurers; limited purpose subsidiary life insurance companies; establish

HB 343: Mental health; psychiatric stabilization or detoxification services; provide

HB 345: Medical assistance; lawfully qualified alien children and pregnant women; eligible

HB 347: Applicant examination; Commissioner not exempt self from written exams; provide

HB 361: Prescription drugs; pharmacist include prescription drug retail price on receipt; provide

HB 365: Insurance; subscription for prepaid air ambulance not contract of insurance; provide

HB 371: Insurable interest; state entity; not fund life insurance on public officers or employees; provide

HB 378: Hemophilia Advisory Board Act; enact

HB 380: Insurance; continuing care providers and facilities; extensively revise

HB 405: Health care facilities; regulation and licensing of assisted living communities; provide

HB 408: Student health; automated external defibrillators; require

HB 413: Surplus line insurance; revise law

HB 423: Unfair trade practices; certain residential contractors insurance claims; violations; provide

HB 426: Georgia Registered Professional Nurse Practice Act; revise a definition

HB 437: Controlled substances; possession of and sale of pseudoephedrine drugs; change provisions

HB 457: Controlled substances; remote automated medication systems; pharmacists; authorize use

HB 460: Psychiatric Advance Directive Act; enact

HB 461: Health Care Compact; adopt

HB 463: Limited licenses; insurance coverage on self-service storage; provide

HB 469: Pharmacists; hard copy prescriptions on security paper; define; require

HB 470: Registered professional nurse; requirements for preceptorship for applicants; revise

HB 476: Georgia Health Exchange Authority; establish

HB 477: Insurance; transition from annual to biennial license renewal; provide

HB 479: Private home care providers; arrangements with independent contractors; revise definition

HB 486: Insurance; prepaid air ambulance service not a contract of insurance; provide

HB 489: Medicaid audits; contingency fee audits; prohibit

HB 501: Volunteer Health Care Services Act; enact

HB 506: Insurance; payment or reimbursement of oral chemotherapy; provide

HB 509: State Medical Education Board; abolish

HB 513: Life insurance; group life insurance policy to approved groups; allow issuance

HB 548: Workers’ compensation; parties to franchise agreement not considered employees; provide

House Resolutions

HR 252: House Study Committee on Adult Mental Health and Disability Facilities; create

Senate Bills

SB 6: Insurance; premium taxes; group accident and sickness contracts; provisions; Georgia Individual High Risk Reinsurance Pool

SB 17: Insurance; establish the Special Advisory Commission on Mandated Health Insurance Benefits; membership, terms, meetings and duties

SB 22: Governor; authorized/directed to apply for a federal waiver; medical loss ratio requirements in Georgia

SB 23: State Government; impose a moratorium on rule making; regard to implementation of federal Patient Protection and Affordable Act

SB 25: State Government; no department shall implement provision to health care reform legislation; unless dept. provide certain report to the General Assembly

SB 36: Controlled Substances; provide establishment of program to monitor prescribing/dispensing; Electronic Database Review Advisory Committee

SB 39: Courts; create mental health court divisions; assignment of cases; provide for planning groups and work plans; standards

SB 63: Georgia Medical Assistance Fraud Prevention Program; enact

SB 66: Perfusionists; revise continuing education requirements; definition

SB 67: Nurses; prohibit the use of the title “nurse” unless licensed as a registered professional nurse

SB 76: Georgia Trauma Care Network Commission; revise provisions; uncompensated trauma care

SB 80: Evidence; provide for DNA analysis of persons arrested for felony offenses

SB 81: Pharmacists; mental/physical examinations of licensees for the practice of pharmacy

SB 93: Controlled Substances; Schedule I, III, IV, V; “dangerous drug”; provisions

SB 100: Georgia Registered Professional Nurse Practice Act; revise a definition

SB 111: Pharmacists; electronic data prescription drug order; provide certain requirements for any electronic transmission mechanism

SB 135: Chiropractors; provide that no person other than a doctor of chiropractic may render chiropractic services

SB 143: Massage Therapy Practice; provide that an applicant for a license by endorsement shall provide certain information

SB 149: Georgia Medicaid Access Act; establish; provide for filing of a proposed complaint of a medical malpractice claim against a medical assistance provider

SB 166: Insurance; extensively revise the requirements for continuing care providers/facilities

SB 177: Health Care Compact; adopt

SB 178: Health Care Facilities; regulation/licensing of assisted living communities; procedures/criteria

SB 179: Radiographers, Radiation Therapists; provide for licensing; regulate; medical imaging/radiation therapy procedures; diagnostic or therapeutic purposes

SB 180: Controlled Substances; authorize the use of remote automated medication systems; definitions; requirements

SB 187: Georgia Registered Professional Nurse Practice Act; revise nursing education requirements for licensure as a registered nurse; provisions

SB 196: Private Home Care Providers; revise definition; exclude from the definition contractual arrangements with independent contractors

SB 199: Insurance; Commissioner shall have authority to impose penalties; licensed under Title 33; certain violations

SB 203: Insurance; provide that certain individuals who collect/input data; automated claims adjudication system are exempt from licensure

SB 209: Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act; enact; regulate the performance of abortions

SB 210: Torts; provide for liability for violations of laws relating to abortion; definitions; wrongful death of an unborn child

SB 211: Lead Poisoning Prevention; provide for certain federal regulations copies, fees, corrective orders, and violations

SB 215: Medicaid/PeachCare; convert program funds to premium assistance to allow low-income families to participate in private sector health insurance plans

SB 216: Insurance Commissioner; authorize insurers to offer individual medical/surgical health insurance policies in Georgia; approved for issuance in selected other states

SB 245: Mental Health; revise the definition of “developmental disability”

SB 251: Insurance; transition from an annual renewal to a biennial renewal of licenses; agents, counselors, adjusters; adjustment of licensing fees

SB 252: Insurance; provide Commissioner shall determine if insurer meets the definition of a reinsurer

SB 261: Licenses Plates; provide special license plate supporting certain prostate cancer related programs

Senate Resolutions

SR 19: Senate Study Committee on Advance Directives; create

SR 24: Georgia High Risk Individual Reinsurance Pool; provide allocation of a percent of premium taxes collected to offset losses- CA

SR 54: Health Care Transformation; senate study committee; create

SR 55: Health Care Freedom of Choice Constitutional Amendment-CA