republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/hb-965.md

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Bill	"The Honorable Jimmy Carter Cancer Treatment Access Act"; enact	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 24 of Title 33 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general insurance provisions, so as to provide that no health benefit plan shall require an insured to fail to successfully respond to a drug or drugs for stage four advanced, metastatic cancer prior to the approval of a drug prescribed by his or her physician; to provide for definitions; to provide for a short title; to provide for legislative findings and intent; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	HB 965	Georgia HB 965 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Amy Carter Calvin Smyre Dee Dawkins-Haigler Gerald Greene Jon Burns Mike Cheokas	2	15	1	2016-02-09	2016-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/e3e1a541-f588-450e-842d-d664f38d6eb5	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	61c06310e1f221c30aa70f64c0029b186691babafeee281c55f7a208febd6b95	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 965 (2015_16) — "The Honorable Jimmy Carter Cancer Treatment Access Act"; enact

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 24 of Title 33 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general insurance provisions, so as to provide that no health benefit plan shall require an insured to fail to successfully respond to a drug or drugs for stage four advanced, metastatic cancer prior to the approval of a drug prescribed by his or her physician; to provide for definitions; to provide for a short title; to provide for legislative findings and intent; 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 965/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 37 2114/a (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 166–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Amy Carter — primary (person)
• Calvin Smyre — primary (person)
• Dee Dawkins-Haigler — primary (person)
• Gerald Greene — primary (person)
• Jon Burns — primary (person)
• Mike Cheokas — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-09 House Hopper
• 2016-02-10 House First Readers reading-1
• 2016-02-11 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2016-02-17 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-02-22 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2016-02-22 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2016-02-23 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2016-03-10 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-03-11 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2016-03-14 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2016-03-14 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 489 executive-signature
• 2016-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e3e1a541-f588-450e-842d-d664f38d6eb5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).