---
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).