---
type: "Bill"
title: "Cancer Treatment Fairness Act; enact"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 24 of Title 33 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions regarding insurance generally, so as to require that a health benefit policy that provides coverage for intravenously administered or injected chemotherapy for the treatment of cancer shall provide coverage no less favorable for orally administered chemotherapy; to provide a short title; to provide for definitions; to provide prohibited actions; to provide an effective date; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2013_14"
identifier: "HB 943"
citation: "Georgia HB 943 (2013_14)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bruce Broadrick", "Lee Hawkins", "Matt Ramsey", "Richard Smith", "Sharon Cooper", "Virgil Fludd"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 19
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2014-02-06"
last_action: "2014-04-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dbe65008-5985-409e-b5ff-0d9927d53f86"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "2a7f630a9e21d461e2b41ca61972f634b0663913d2814543869ea3ef93987206"
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 943 (2013_14) — Cancer Treatment Fairness Act; enact

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 24 of Title 33 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions regarding insurance generally, so as to require that a health benefit policy that provides coverage for intravenously administered or injected chemotherapy for the treatment of cancer shall provide coverage no less favorable for orally administered chemotherapy; to provide a short title; to provide for definitions; to provide prohibited actions; to provide an effective date; 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 943/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/144444.pdf)
2. **LC 33 5485/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/139170.pdf)
3. **LC 37 1740S/hcs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/140927.pdf)
4. **LC 37 1740S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/140343.pdf)
5. **Sen ctee sub LC 37 1788S** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/143272.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **158–6** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bruce Broadrick — primary (person)
- Lee Hawkins — primary (person)
- Matt Ramsey — primary (person)
- Richard Smith — primary (person)
- Sharon Cooper — primary (person)
- Virgil Fludd — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2014-02-06** House Hopper
- **2014-02-07** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2014-02-10** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2014-02-19** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2014-02-21** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2014-02-21** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2014-02-24** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2014-03-12** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2014-03-12** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2014-03-13** Senate Tabled
- **2014-03-13** Senate Taken from Table
- **2014-03-13** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2014-03-13** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2014-03-18** House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub As Amended
- **2014-03-18** Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
- **2014-03-26** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2014-04-15** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2014-04-15** Act 529 `executive-signature`
- **2014-04-15** Effective Date

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/dbe65008-5985-409e-b5ff-0d9927d53f86`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).