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
Failed
Mar/01/2011 – House Second Readers
Failed
Failed
Failed
Feb/28/2011 – House Second Readers
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
Failed
Mar/16/2011 – House First Readers
Mar/16/2011 – Senate Passed/Adopted
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
Failed
Failed
Mar/16/2011 – Senate Passed/Adopted
Failed
Mar/16/2011 – Senate Passed/Adopted
Mar/16/2011 – Senate Passed/Adopted
SB 209: Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act; enact; regulate the performance of abortions
Failed
Mar/16/2011 – Senate Passed/Adopted
Mar/16/2011 – Senate Passed/Adopted
Failed
Failed
SB 245: Mental Health; revise the definition of “developmental disability”
Mar/16/2011 – House First Readers
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
Failed
SR 54: Health Care Transformation; senate study committee; create
Failed
SR 55: Health Care Freedom of Choice Constitutional Amendment-CA
Failed
I see no legislation on transparency of health care cost from providers( mainly hospitals), we need competition in health care. We all have seen EOB’s and doctors aren’t getting the biggest portion of the fees for surgical procedures.
Also No tort reform legislation
Comment by Bob Lucisano — February 3, 2011 @ 10:40 am |
Bob,
I’m not completely unhappy that there isn’t legislation for MPT, or I suppose I would support it if it promotes or even mandates it, but allows MPT to be developed and marketed by private vendors like Monocle Health Data, LLC. I’m glad Congress and the administration “forgot” to handle medical price inflation. It certainly keeps them from messing up my market. On the state level, Georgia is a little hamstrung by the GA Supreme Court’s most recent actions as far as expanding tort reform in Georgia’s courts. As to the federal courts, it is appropriate for the Congress to step in and we’re likely to see some legislation, but I’m not sure how far it will go with the Dems still holding the Senate and the White House.
Great comments Bob!
Michael
Comment by healthygeorgia — February 4, 2011 @ 12:34 am |