Legislation: batch A — AK AL AR AZ CO CT DE GA HI IA ID

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

legislation/us/states/ga/2017-18/sb-125.md

@@ -0,0 +1,86 @@
+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Physician Assistants; authority to prescribe hydrocodone compound products; authorize a physician to delegate to a physician assistant"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 43-34-103 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to delegation of authority to physician assistants, so as to authorize a physician to delegate to a physician assistant the authority to prescribe hydrocodone compound products; to provide for a limitation; to provide for additional continuing education requirements regarding hydrocodone compound products; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
+legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
+session: "2017_18"
+identifier: "SB 125"
+citation: "Georgia SB 125 (2017_18)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Ben Watson", "Burt Jones", "Butch Miller", "Chuck Hufstetler", "Dean Burke", "Frank Ginn", "Greg Kirk", "Jeff Mullis", "John Kennedy", "John Wilkinson", "Matt Brass", "Renee Unterman", "Rick Jeffares", "Steve Gooch", "Steve Henson"]
+version_count: 0
+action_count: 17
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2017-02-07"
+last_action: "2017-05-09"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f9c8e407-ad99-440e-9b65-29150bde83a8"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "04691c9b64cbf6b1df82dc9b0d77f895b631ff655b4a80da538b9665931d11c7"
+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 SB 125 (2017_18) — Physician Assistants; authority to prescribe hydrocodone compound products; authorize a physician to delegate to a physician assistant
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 43-34-103 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to delegation of authority to physician assistants, so as to authorize a physician to delegate to a physician assistant the authority to prescribe hydrocodone compound products; to provide for a limitation; to provide for additional continuing education requirements regarding hydrocodone compound products; 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.
+
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **48–3** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Ben Watson — primary (person)
+- Burt Jones — primary (person)
+- Butch Miller — primary (person)
+- Chuck Hufstetler — primary (person)
+- Dean Burke — primary (person)
+- Frank Ginn — primary (person)
+- Greg Kirk — primary (person)
+- Jeff Mullis — primary (person)
+- John Kennedy — primary (person)
+- John Wilkinson — primary (person)
+- Matt Brass — primary (person)
+- Renee Unterman — primary (person)
+- Rick Jeffares — primary (person)
+- Steve Gooch — primary (person)
+- Steve Henson — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-02-07** Senate Hopper
+- **2017-02-08** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-15** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-02-16** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2017-02-21** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2017-02-21** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2017-02-22** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2017-02-23** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2017-03-22** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-22** House Withdrawn, Recommitted `withdrawal, referral-committee`
+- **2017-03-24** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-28** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2017-03-28** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2017-03-30** Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
+- **2017-04-04** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2017-05-09** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2017-05-09** Veto V8 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f9c8e407-ad99-440e-9b65-29150bde83a8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+