republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/sb-126.md

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Bill	Pharmacists and Pharmacies; expansion of certain medical professionals to prescribe auto-injectable epinephrine to authorized entity; emergency purposes	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; to amend Chapter 2A of Title 31 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the Department of Public Health; to amend Chapter 34 of Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to physicians, physician assistants, and others, so as to provide for emergency public access stations to allow a lay rescuer to consult with a medical professional to administer or make available auto-injectable epinephrine under certain circumstances; to provide for immunity; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	SB 126	Georgia SB 126 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Chuck Hufstetler Nan Orrock	7	16	1	2015-02-17	2015-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/6e4c80c7-7cb8-47ed-9959-7717eafdc2c9	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	bfc88a4ccfdfa62a0bada6931256fa5c9d6ae9376049065bedcb1526132879dc	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 126 (2015_16) — Pharmacists and Pharmacies; expansion of certain medical professionals to prescribe auto-injectable epinephrine to authorized entity; emergency purposes

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; to amend Chapter 2A of Title 31 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the Department of Public Health; to amend Chapter 34 of Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to physicians, physician assistants, and others, so as to provide for emergency public access stations to allow a lay rescuer to consult with a medical professional to administer or make available auto-injectable epinephrine under certain circumstances; to provide for immunity; 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. As introduced LC 37 1909ER (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 37 1951ERS (committee substitute) — source
4. Floor Amendment - AM 33 1572 (committee substitute) — source
5. LC 33 6211S/hss (committee substitute) — source
6. SB 126/AP* (committee substitute) — source
7. SB 126/HCSFA (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — 53–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Chuck Hufstetler — primary (person)
• Nan Orrock — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-17 Senate Hopper
• 2015-02-18 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2015-03-09 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-03-11 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2015-03-13 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2015-03-13 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2015-03-18 House First Readers reading-1
• 2015-03-19 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2015-03-27 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-04-02 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2015-04-02 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2015-04-02 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2015-04-09 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2015-05-05 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2015-05-05 Act 56 executive-signature
• 2015-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6e4c80c7-7cb8-47ed-9959-7717eafdc2c9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).