1. Home
  2. >
  3. GHF Blog
  4. >
  5. The 2013 Georgia Legislative...
« All Blog Entries

The 2013 Georgia Legislative Session is underway

It was a busy first week at the State Capitol, as the Senate passed legislation (SB 24) authorizing the Department of Community Health to assess a fee on hospitals to secure federal matching funds for the state’s Medicaid program. Without the assessment, the Medicaid program faces a budget shortfall.  SB 24 now moves to the House.

 

 

The Legislature will not officially be in Session next week but the House and Senate Appropriations Committees will hear from state agencies about their budget proposals. The health-related agencies will make presentations on Thursday morning in Room 341 of the State Capitol. These presentations are open to the public. The Department of Community Health’s presentation is scheduled for 10:15am and the Department of Public Health is at 11:15am on January 24th.

 

 

 


Tags:

Stay Connected

Sign up to receive updates from GHF!
Join

GHF In The News

Sep 22, 2025
States should be full steam ahead on Medicaid work requirements, experts say
Rebecca Pifer

Many state Medicaid systems today are a patchwork of vendors and capabilities not designed to pull and track data from disparate sources — a capability at the core of tracking…

Archive