republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/sb-51.md

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Bill	Pharmacists and Pharmacies; provide for substitutions of interchangeable biological products	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 substitutions of interchangeable biological products; to define certain terms; to provide for requirements and limitations; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	SB 51	Georgia SB 51 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Ben Watson Brandon Beach Butch Miller Charlie Bethel Chuck Hufstetler Dean Burke Fran Millar Greg Kirk Hunter Hill Nan Orrock Steve Henson	5	16	1	2015-01-16	2015-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/6c18c06b-ebf0-46ba-acf8-a5ea0bae14ee	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	049f22275dc802d50f8d31a8fe948741960f62e05af0d9e6044ab772d7509c0d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 51 (2015_16) — Pharmacists and Pharmacies; provide for substitutions of interchangeable biological products

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 substitutions of interchangeable biological products; to define certain terms; to provide for requirements and limitations; 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 1863ER (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 37 1893ERS (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 37 1979S/hss (committee substitute) — source
5. SB 51/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — 47–1 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ben Watson — primary (person)
• Brandon Beach — primary (person)
• Butch Miller — primary (person)
• Charlie Bethel — primary (person)
• Chuck Hufstetler — primary (person)
• Dean Burke — primary (person)
• Fran Millar — primary (person)
• Greg Kirk — primary (person)
• Hunter Hill — primary (person)
• Nan Orrock — primary (person)
• Steve Henson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-01-16 Senate Hopper
• 2015-01-26 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2015-02-17 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-02-18 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2015-02-19 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2015-02-19 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2015-02-20 House First Readers reading-1
• 2015-02-23 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2015-03-11 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-03-20 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2015-03-20 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2015-03-25 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2015-04-09 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2015-05-06 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2015-05-06 Act 189 executive-signature
• 2015-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6c18c06b-ebf0-46ba-acf8-a5ea0bae14ee. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).