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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Drug Abuse Treatment and Education Programs; patient brokering; prohibit; definitions; exceptions; penalties; provide"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 5 of Title 26 of the O.C.G.A., relating to drug abuse treatment and education programs, so as to prohibit patient brokering; to provide for definitions; to provide for exceptions; to provide for penalties; to provide for enforcement; to provide for venue; to provide for reasonable expenses; to provide for cumulative actions; to amend Chapter 1 of Title 33 of the O.C.G.A., relating to general provisions regarding insurance, so as to provide that excessive, fraudulent, or high-tech drug testing of certain individuals is considered a fraudulent insurance act; to provide for investigation by the Commissioner of Insurance; to provide for penalties; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
+legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
+session: "2021_22"
+identifier: "SB 4"
+citation: "Georgia SB 4 (2021_22)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Ben Watson", "Dean Burke", "Kay Kirkpatrick", "Michael 'Doc' Rhett", "Randy Robertson"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2021-01-12"
+last_action: "2021-07-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c130461b-ccfc-48de-9b21-4b1d1fef9858"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "d800835b5e4fe39970d03d311630831c063a5adbacb8de75cf254ffd14285c88"
+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 4 (2021_22) — Drug Abuse Treatment and Education Programs; patient brokering; prohibit; definitions; exceptions; penalties; provide
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 5 of Title 26 of the O.C.G.A., relating to drug abuse treatment and education programs, so as to prohibit patient brokering; to provide for definitions; to provide for exceptions; to provide for penalties; to provide for enforcement; to provide for venue; to provide for reasonable expenses; to provide for cumulative actions; to amend Chapter 1 of Title 33 of the O.C.G.A., relating to general provisions regarding insurance, so as to provide that excessive, fraudulent, or high-tech drug testing of certain individuals is considered a fraudulent insurance act; to provide for investigation by the Commissioner of Insurance; to provide for penalties; 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. **As introduced LC 33 8467** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/195664.pdf)
+2. **As passed Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/197136.pdf)
+3. **LC 33 8708S/hss** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/199283.pdf)
+4. **SB 4/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/201183.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **52–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Ben Watson — primary (person)
+- Dean Burke — primary (person)
+- Kay Kirkpatrick — primary (person)
+- Michael 'Doc' Rhett — primary (person)
+- Randy Robertson — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-01-12** Senate Hopper
+- **2021-01-13** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2021-02-04** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-02-08** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2021-02-09** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2021-02-09** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2021-02-10** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2021-02-11** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2021-03-03** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-03-11** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2021-03-11** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2021-03-23** Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
+- **2021-04-07** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-05-04** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2021-05-04** Act 205 `executive-signature`
+- **2021-07-01** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c130461b-ccfc-48de-9b21-4b1d1fef9858`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+