Healthcare laws and bills in Georgia

Every bill in the Georgia Legislature that falls inside the Healthcare Legislation Tracker's scope, with where each one currently stands.

Bills in scope
101bills in scope
Past committee
48past committee
Most recent action
1 July 2026most recent action

Healthcare laws enacted in Georgia in 2026

12 Healthcare bills were enacted in Georgia this year, the latest with a last action on 1 July 2026. They lead the list below.

Healthcare bills in Georgia

19Enacted

29Past committee

53Introduced or inactive

101 bills in scope

Enacted

19

SB 162Georgia Composite Medical Board; implement an automated credentialing system for healthcare providers in this state; provideEnactedSB 195Pharmacies; pharmacists are authorized to dispense preexposure prophylaxis and postexposure prophylaxis under certain conditions; provideEnactedSB 500Behavioral Health Care Workforce Data Base; expand to include data from licensed health care professionalsEnactedHB 506Social services; Medicaid coverage for tobacco cessation treatments; provideEnactedHB 717Medical Practice Act; regulation of the administration of psychedelic-assisted treatment and therapy; provideEnactedHB 185Professions and businesses; repeal and reenact Chapter 11A, the Dietetics Practice ActEnactedSB 427Physicians; limited provisional licenses and a pathway to licensure for certain internationally trained physicians; provideEnactedHB 1278Professions and businesses; improve efficiencies in issuance of permits for dentists to administer conscious sedation and general anesthesiaEnactedHB 219Professions and businesses; establish a professional health program to provide for monitoring and rehabilitation of impaired healthcare professionals; authorizeEnactedSB 444Private Review Agents; certain decisions with regard to the provision of insurance coverage for healthcare services shall not be based solely on artificial intelligence systems; provideEnactedHB 567Professions and businesses; authorize and regulate teledentistry by licensed dentistsEnactedHB 584Health; reassign licensing and oversight of certain treatments and programs from Departments of Community Health to Behavioral Health and Developmental DisabilitiesEnactedHB 196State employees' health insurance plan; drugs dispensed for self-administration; provisionsEnactedHB 422State employees' health insurance; include high deductible health plansEnactedSB 130Health; medical education funding and the service cancelable loan program; expandEnactedSB 276Recovery of Medical Assistance from Third Party; certain provisions to comply with federal law; reviseEnactedSB 5Private Review Agents; health insurers to implement and maintain a program that allows for the selective application of reductions in prior authorization requirements; provideEnactedSB 101Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy; testing in the newborn screening system; requireEnactedSB 140Optometrists; doctors of optometry to dispense and sell pharmaceutical agents to patients under certain conditions; provideEnacted

Past committee

6 of 29 shown

SB 440Department of Public Health; provisions relative to duties or functions; modernize and updatePassed chamberHB 1393Hospitals; allow rural hospitals to join together to allow further purchasing power with third-party payors but retain their independencePassed chamberHR 1891House Study Committee on Physicians' Delegation Authority and Supervision of Georgia's Advanced Practice Providers; createPassed committeeHR 1657House Study Committee on Medicaid Waiver Populations and Long-Term Financial and Administrative Sustainability; createPassed committeeHR 1674House Study Committee on State Governance of Emergency Medical Services; createPassed committeeHB 87Insurance; require health benefit policy coverage for medically necessary orthotic and prosthetic devices and their materials and componentsPassed chamber

Showing the 25 furthest along of 101. Subscribers see all of them, filtered and searchable. Bill titles link to the Georgia Legislature's own page.

What LawSignals covers

What counts as Healthcare Legislation legislation

In scope is any bill on the delivery, financing and regulation of health care: coverage mandates, prior authorization and utilization review, Medicaid and state health programmes, hospital finance, licensure and staffing, scope of practice and interstate compacts, telehealth, prescription drugs and pharmacy benefit managers, surprise billing, price transparency and medical debt, behavioral health and substance use treatment, maternal health, long-term care and emergency medical services.

Tracker scopes are model-drafted, not attorney-reviewed.

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