Archives: Bills

Authorize pharmacies to supply opioid antagonists like Narcan through vending machines and other methods, and to provide for immunity for  someone who distributes these agonists.

Revise Certificate of Need for rural hospitals, and to create the Comprehensive Health Coverage Commission to investigate possible Medicaid Expansion in Georgia.

Extend the sunset provision on the Hospital Medicaid Financing Program.

State employees covered by a state health plan are covered when a hospital becomes out-of-network before the end of the plan year.

Establish a grant program to create EmPATH units in hospitals (Emergency Pscyhiatirc Assemessment, Treatment, and Healing)

Change what caregiving expenses can be counted toward the caregiving expense tax credit, as well as increasing the tax credit.

Provide for residential eviction diversion programs for disabled and low-income people in order to avoid eviction of these people.

Provide protection against mortgage foreclosures to senior and disabled individuals.

Create a Georgia Commission on Maternal and Infant Health in the Georgia Department of Public Health