---
type: "Bill"
title: "Pharmacy licenses; employing mails or common carriers to sell, distribute, and deliver prescription drugs; revise a provision"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 26-4-60 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to grounds for suspension, revocation, or refusal to grant pharmacy licenses, so as to revise a provision relating to employing the mails or common carriers to sell, distribute, and deliver prescription drugs; 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 886"
citation: "Georgia HB 886 (2015_16)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Carl Rogers", "Charles Martin", "Richard Smith", "Sharon Cooper"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 15
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2016-02-02"
last_action: "2016-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9ac3311f-a964-494e-b36f-74a4b9756f34"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "60104ed381210be1c967e3a0ebe3c518d22a0e10621c6d26da3e36be421b25c1"
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 886 (2015_16) — Pharmacy licenses; employing mails or common carriers to sell, distribute, and deliver prescription drugs; revise a provision

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 26-4-60 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to grounds for suspension, revocation, or refusal to grant pharmacy licenses, so as to revise a provision relating to employing the mails or common carriers to sell, distribute, and deliver prescription drugs; 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 886/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/160408.pdf)
2. **LC 33 6363/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/156156.pdf)
3. **LC 33 6475S/hcs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/158046.pdf)
4. **LC 33 6475S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/157030.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **155–4** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Carl Rogers — primary (person)
- Charles Martin — primary (person)
- Richard Smith — primary (person)
- Sharon Cooper — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2016-02-02** House Hopper
- **2016-02-03** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2016-02-04** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2016-02-10** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2016-02-19** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2016-02-19** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2016-02-22** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2016-03-07** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2016-03-08** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2016-03-11** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2016-03-11** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2016-03-28** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2016-04-27** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2016-04-27** Act 468 `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/9ac3311f-a964-494e-b36f-74a4b9756f34`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).