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Bill	Pharmacies; licensed health practitioners prescribe opioid antagonists to certain individuals and entities pursuant to a protocol; provisions	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 6 of Chapter 4 of Title 26 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to pharmacies, so as to authorize licensed health practitioners to prescribe opioid antagonists to certain individuals and entities pursuant to a protocol; to provide for legislative findings; to amend Chapter 11 of Title 31 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to emergency medical services, so as to provide for grants to ensure availability of opioid antagonists; to authorize emergency medical services personnel to administer parenteral injections of opioid antagonists; to provide for related matters; to provide an effective date; to provide for applicability; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2013_14	HB 966	Georgia HB 966 (2013_14)	bill		enacted	Ben Watson Margaret Kaiser Mary Oliver Roger Rutledge Sharon Cooper Tom Weldon	7	18	1	2014-02-07	2014-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/84740694-9552-4e25-ac62-ab33b36a8aa4	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	7ccd741ad567770d1026b03c33aaea7e4ad71be1f2c0a566329a4cddc9ba89f2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 966 (2013_14) — Pharmacies; licensed health practitioners prescribe opioid antagonists to certain individuals and entities pursuant to a protocol; provisions

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 6 of Chapter 4 of Title 26 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to pharmacies, so as to authorize licensed health practitioners to prescribe opioid antagonists to certain individuals and entities pursuant to a protocol; to provide for legislative findings; to amend Chapter 11 of Title 31 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to emergency medical services, so as to provide for grants to ensure availability of opioid antagonists; to authorize emergency medical services personnel to administer parenteral injections of opioid antagonists; to provide for related matters; to provide an effective date; to provide for applicability; 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 966/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 33 5490/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 33 5585S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 33 5585S/hs (committee substitute) — source
5. SCSFA to HB 966 (committee substitute) — source
6. Sen ctee sub LC 37 1797S (committee substitute) — source
7. Sen floor amend 1 AM 37 0259 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 163–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Ben Watson — primary (person)
• Margaret Kaiser — primary (person)
• Mary Oliver — primary (person)
• Roger Rutledge — primary (person)
• Sharon Cooper — primary (person)
• Tom Weldon — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2014-02-07 House Hopper
• 2014-02-10 House First Readers reading-1
• 2014-02-11 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2014-02-21 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2014-02-25 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2014-02-25 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2014-02-26 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2014-03-13 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2014-03-13 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2014-03-18 Senate Tabled
• 2014-03-20 Senate Taken from Table
• 2014-03-20 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2014-03-20 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2014-03-20 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
• 2014-03-26 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2014-04-29 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2014-04-29 Act 646 executive-signature
• 2014-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/84740694-9552-4e25-ac62-ab33b36a8aa4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).