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Bill	Pharmacists and pharmacies; regulation of certain facilities and entities involved in the wholesale, manufacture, and distribution of drugs; provide	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 4 of Title 26 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to pharmacists and pharmacies, so as to provide for the regulation of certain facilities and entities involved in the wholesale, manufacture, and distribution of drugs; to provide definitions; to provide for licensure and registration; to provide for temporary pharmacy licenses for service members; to revise provisions relating to the compounding of drug products to conform with federal law; to establish requirements relating to drug supply chain security; to revise a provision relating to the return of outdated drugs; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	HB 926	Georgia HB 926 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Bruce Broadrick Buddy Harden Butch Parrish Ron Stephens	7	16	1	2016-02-04	2016-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/2c8a0d27-9f08-4868-a320-962615d5a300	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	c7a39798e049d55de0358b8045580f24cdb2f5acaed480410ed47c03144309c4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 926 (2015_16) — Pharmacists and pharmacies; regulation of certain facilities and entities involved in the wholesale, manufacture, and distribution of drugs; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 4 of Title 26 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to pharmacists and pharmacies, so as to provide for the regulation of certain facilities and entities involved in the wholesale, manufacture, and distribution of drugs; to provide definitions; to provide for licensure and registration; to provide for temporary pharmacy licenses for service members; to revise provisions relating to the compounding of drug products to conform with federal law; to establish requirements relating to drug supply chain security; to revise a provision relating to the return of outdated drugs; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.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 926/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 33 6357/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 33 6537S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 33 6537S/hs (committee substitute) — source
5. Sen ctee sub LC 33 6613S (committee substitute) — source
6. Sen floor amend 1 (committee substitute) — source
7. Sen floor amend 1a (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 128–33 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bruce Broadrick — primary (person)
• Buddy Harden — primary (person)
• Butch Parrish — primary (person)
• Ron Stephens — 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
• 2016-02-24 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-02-26 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2016-02-26 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2016-02-29 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2016-03-15 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-03-15 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2016-03-22 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2016-03-22 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2016-03-24 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
• 2016-04-05 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2016-05-03 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2016-05-03 Act 620 executive-signature
• 2016-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2c8a0d27-9f08-4868-a320-962615d5a300. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).