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Bill	"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.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	HB 916	Georgia HB 916 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Andrew Welch David Knight Dustin Hightower Jesse Petrea Katie Dempsey Tom McCall	2	16	1	2016-02-04	2016-05-03	openstates	ocd-bill/aaf399c8-9661-46e1-af91-6f32fc0ffc4f	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	0d3cfc04f1d87dce213ebd2c60b47c16f9c2a067897ce894d0c3a8f83c6e1daf	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	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
2. LC 33 6419/a (committee substitute) — source

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; origin ocd-bill/aaf399c8-9661-46e1-af91-6f32fc0ffc4f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).