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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Health; care and protection of indigent and elderly patients; provide for the establishment and operation of a drug repository program to accept and dispense unused prescription drugs"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 8 of Title 31 of the O.C.G.A., relating to the care and protection of indigent and elderly patients, so as to provide for the establishment and operation of a drug repository program to accept and dispense unused prescription drugs; to amend Chapter 4 of Title 26 of the O.C.G.A., relating to pharmacists and pharmacies, so as to repeal the \"Utilization of Unused Prescription Drugs Act\"; to amend Article 7 of Chapter 4 of Title 49 of the O.C.G.A., relating to medical assistance generally, so as to revise a provision for purposes of conformity; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
+legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
+session: "2015_16"
+identifier: "HB 897"
+citation: "Georgia HB 897 (2015_16)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Betty Price", "Bruce Broadrick", "Jodi Lott", "Margaret Kaiser", "Matt Hatchett", "Sharon Cooper"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 17
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2016-02-03"
+last_action: "2016-07-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/917d095f-1f5e-47bf-ad99-d63a8e523ad9"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "d192276bd8164be40ec02cee73bc1b4ab409436c3028d346b4b057647feb6ce5"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ga"]
+---
+
+# Georgia HB 897 (2015_16) — Health; care and protection of indigent and elderly patients; provide for the establishment and operation of a drug repository program to accept and dispense unused prescription drugs
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 8 of Title 31 of the O.C.G.A., relating to the care and protection of indigent and elderly patients, so as to provide for the establishment and operation of a drug repository program to accept and dispense unused prescription drugs; to amend Chapter 4 of Title 26 of the O.C.G.A., relating to pharmacists and pharmacies, so as to repeal the "Utilization of Unused Prescription Drugs Act"; to amend Article 7 of Chapter 4 of Title 49 of the O.C.G.A., relating to medical assistance generally, so as to revise a provision for purposes of conformity; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB 897/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/162108.pdf)
+2. **LC 33 6408/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/156355.pdf)
+3. **LC 33 6493S/hcs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/158836.pdf)
+4. **LC 33 6493S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/157656.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **166–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Betty Price — primary (person)
+- Bruce Broadrick — primary (person)
+- Jodi Lott — primary (person)
+- Margaret Kaiser — primary (person)
+- Matt Hatchett — primary (person)
+- Sharon Cooper — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2016-02-03** House Hopper
+- **2016-02-04** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2016-02-08** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2016-02-17** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2016-02-25** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2016-02-25** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2016-02-26** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2016-03-15** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2016-03-15** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2016-03-22** Senate Tabled
+- **2016-03-22** Senate Taken from Table
+- **2016-03-22** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2016-03-22** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2016-03-29** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2016-04-27** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2016-04-27** Act 471 `executive-signature`
+- **2016-07-01** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/917d095f-1f5e-47bf-ad99-d63a8e523ad9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+