---
type: "Bill"
title: "\"The Pharmacy Audit Bill of Rights\"; certain audits conducted by the Department of Community Health; remove exception; provisions"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 26-4-118 of the O.C.G.A., relating to \"The Pharmacy Audit Bill of Rights;\" so as to remove an exception relating to certain audits conducted by the Department of Community Health; to amend Article 7 of Chapter 4 of Title 49 of the O.C.G.A., relating to medical assistance generally, so as to provide that clerical or other errors do not constitute a basis to recoup payments made by providers of medical assistance; to provide for a correction period; to amend Chapter 1 of Title 50 of the O.C.G.A., relating to general provisions regarding state government, so as to provide that clerical or other errors do not constitute a basis to recoup payments made by providers of medical assistance; to provide for a correction period; 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 916"
citation: "Georgia HB 916 (2015_16)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Andrew Welch", "David Knight", "Dustin Hightower", "Jesse Petrea", "Katie Dempsey", "Tom McCall"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 16
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2016-02-04"
last_action: "2016-05-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/aaf399c8-9661-46e1-af91-6f32fc0ffc4f"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "0d3cfc04f1d87dce213ebd2c60b47c16f9c2a067897ce894d0c3a8f83c6e1daf"
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 916 (2015_16) — "The Pharmacy Audit Bill of Rights"; certain audits conducted by the Department of Community Health; remove exception; provisions

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 26-4-118 of the O.C.G.A., relating to "The Pharmacy Audit Bill of Rights;" so as to remove an exception relating to certain audits conducted by the Department of Community Health; to amend Article 7 of Chapter 4 of Title 49 of the O.C.G.A., relating to medical assistance generally, so as to provide that clerical or other errors do not constitute a basis to recoup payments made by providers of medical assistance; to provide for a correction period; to amend Chapter 1 of Title 50 of the O.C.G.A., relating to general provisions regarding state government, so as to provide that clerical or other errors do not constitute a basis to recoup payments made by providers of medical assistance; to provide for a correction period; 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 916/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/162456.pdf)
2. **LC 33 6419/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/156527.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **164–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Andrew Welch — primary (person)
- David Knight — primary (person)
- Dustin Hightower — primary (person)
- Jesse Petrea — primary (person)
- Katie Dempsey — primary (person)
- Tom McCall — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2016-02-04** House Hopper
- **2016-02-08** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2016-02-09** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2016-02-17** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2016-02-24** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2016-02-24** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2016-02-25** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2016-03-14** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2016-03-14** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2016-03-22** Senate Tabled
- **2016-03-24** Senate Taken from Table
- **2016-03-24** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2016-03-24** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2016-03-30** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2016-05-03** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2016-05-03** Veto V10 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/aaf399c8-9661-46e1-af91-6f32fc0ffc4f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).