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HB874 - Schools; automated external defibrillators; require
Lee Hawkins, Chris Erwin, Jan Jones
Last updated 5 months ago
7 Co-Sponsors
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 3 of Article 16 of Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to health, so as to require automated external defibrillators in all schools; to provide for definitions; to provide for the establishment of emergency action plans to address a person in cardiac arrest; to provide for internal response teams; to provide for practice drills; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
STATUS
Passed
HB30 - State government; definition of antisemitism; provide
John Carson, Chuck Efstration, Esther Panitch
Last updated 8 months ago
7 Co-Sponsors
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 1 of Title 50 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions relative to state government, so as to provide for the definition of antisemitism; to require state agencies and departments to consider such definition when determining whether an alleged act was motivated by discriminatory antisemitic intent; to provide for limitations and construction; to provide legislative findings; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
STATUS
Passed
HB1081 - Health; provide mandatory preeclampsia biomarker testing for pregnant women during their first prenatal visit
Darlene K. Taylor, Sharon Cooper, James Matthew Hatchett
Last updated 8 months ago
6 Co-Sponsors
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 12 of Title 31 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to control of hazardous conditions, preventable diseases, and metabolic disorders, so as to provide for mandatory preeclampsia biomarker testing for pregnant women during their first prenatal visit; to amend Chapter 24 of Title 33 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to insurance generally, so as to require health benefit policy coverage for preeclampsia biomarker testing for pregnant women during their first prenatal visit and as deemed necessary and ordered by an attending physician thereafter; to amend Code Section 49-4-159.3 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to biomarker testing for Medicaid recipients; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
STATUS
Introduced
HB1078 - Community Health, Department of; Georgia Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE); establish and implement
Jesse L. Petrea, Sharon Cooper, Lee Hawkins
Last updated 5 months ago
7 Co-Sponsors
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 6 of Title 49 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to services for the aging, so as create a new adult day center licensure exclusion; to authorize the Department of Community Health to establish and implement the Georgia Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) as part of the state's medical assistance program; to provide for definitions; to exempt PACE organizations from the requirement to obtain a certificate of authority as a health maintenance organization; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
STATUS
Passed
HR943 - Georgia Academy of Audiology; commend
Teri Anulewicz, Darlene K. Taylor, Doug Stoner
Last updated 8 months ago
6 Co-Sponsors
A RESOLUTION recognizing and commending the Georgia Academy of Audiology; and for other purposes.
STATUS
Passed
HB1077 - Georgia Board of Health Care Workforce; grant program to provide funding to eligible institutions for additional behavioral health workforce training positions; create
Sharon Cooper, Mark Newton, Lee Hawkins
Last updated 7 months ago
5 Co-Sponsors
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 create a grant program to provide funding to eligible institutions for additional behavioral health workforce training positions; to provide for definitions; to provide for eligibility criteria; to provide for funding sources; to provide for applications; to provide for funding limitations; to create a behavioral health provider loan repayment program; to provide for definitions; to provide for written contracts with program participants; to provide for payment criteria; to provide for maximum amounts; to provide for prioritization of applications; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
STATUS
Engrossed
HB1072 - Health; drug repository program; revise definitions; provide for pharmacist to pharmacy technician ratios
Sharon Cooper, Mark Newton, Butch Parrish
Last updated 5 months ago
7 Co-Sponsors
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 10 of Chapter 8 of Title 31 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the drug repository program, so as to revise definitions; to provide for pharmacist to pharmacy technician ratios in the program; to require reverse drug distributors to make and document diligent efforts to donate drugs rather than destroy them; to provide for substitution of drugs in some instances; to provide for the intent of the General Assembly with respect to settlement funds received by the state relating to prescription drugs; to amend Code Section 48-8-3 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to exemptions from sales and use taxes, so as to exempt sales to or by certain eligible recipients; to provide for related matters; to provide for legislative findings; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
STATUS
Passed
HB1073 - Local government; zoning; repeal additional hearing and notice provisions regarding halfway houses, drug rehabilitation centers, or other facilities for treatment of drug dependency
Dale Washburn, Sharon Cooper, Mary Margaret Oliver
Last updated 5 months ago
7 Co-Sponsors
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 36-66-4 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to hearings on proposed zoning decisions, notice of hearing, nongovernmental initiated actions, reconsideration of defeated actions, and procedure on zoning, so as to repeal additional hearing and notice provisions regarding halfway houses, drug rehabilitation centers, or other facilities for treatment of drug dependency; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
STATUS
Passed
HB822 - Quality Basic Education Act; prescribed course of study in sex education and HIV prevention is age appropriate and medically accurate; provide
Kasey Carpenter, Sharon Cooper, Lauren Daniel
Last updated over 1 year ago
5 Co-Sponsors
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 2 of Article 6 of Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to competencies and core curriculum under the "Quality Basic Education Act," so as to provide that the prescribed course of study in sex education and HIV prevention instruction is age appropriate and medically accurate; to include the subject of consent in such course of study; to provide for implementation; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
STATUS
Introduced
HB455 - Professions and businesses; professional programs to address career fatigue and wellness in healthcare professionals; provisions
John LaHood, Sharon Cooper, Mark Newton
Last updated 5 months ago
6 Co-Sponsors
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 1 of Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions relative to professions and businesses, so as to provide that professional programs that are established to address career fatigue and wellness in healthcare professionals are not obligated to report to licensing boards except in certain circumstances; to provide for definitions; to provide for immunity; to provide that certain documents and information of professional programs are not discoverable; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
STATUS
Passed
BIOGRAPHY
INCUMBENT
Representative from Georgia district HD-045
COMMITTEES
Georgia House
BIRTH
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ABOUT
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