republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2017-18/sb-103.md

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Bill	'The Pharmacy Patient Fair Practices Act'; pharmacy benefits managers; Commissioner of Insurance to promulgate certain rules and regulations; authorize	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 64 of Title 33 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to regulation and licensure of pharmacy benefits managers, so as to authorize the Commissioner of Insurance to promulgate certain rules and regulations and to examine and investigate certain matters with regard to pharmacy benefits managers; to prohibit pharmacy benefits managers from requiring the use of mail-order pharmacies under certain conditions; to provide for exceptions; to provide for certain prohibitions; to provide for enforcement; to provide a short title; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date and applicability; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2017_18	SB 103	Georgia SB 103 (2017_18)	bill		enacted	Ben Watson Blake Tillery Brandon Beach Burt Jones Butch Miller Chuck Payne Chuck Hufstetler Curt Thompson Dean Burke Donzella James Ed Harbison Elena Parent Ellis Black Frank Ginn Gloria Butler Greg Kirk Hunter Hill Jack Hill Jeff Mullis Jesse Stone John Albers John Kennedy Lawrence Walker III Marty Harbin Matt Brass Michael 'Doc' Rhett Michael Williams Mike Dugan Nan Orrock P. K. Martin IV Steve Gooch Steve Henson Tyler Harper William Ligon, Jr.	0	15	1	2017-01-31	2017-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/d60bb039-a462-4d12-b241-495b383d0e01	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	6617d78d656ba4a2f7f4b79916757e35264ba90638485ae9e4fe3b8c2e1e1588	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 103 (2017_18) — 'The Pharmacy Patient Fair Practices Act'; pharmacy benefits managers; Commissioner of Insurance to promulgate certain rules and regulations; authorize

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 64 of Title 33 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to regulation and licensure of pharmacy benefits managers, so as to authorize the Commissioner of Insurance to promulgate certain rules and regulations and to examine and investigate certain matters with regard to pharmacy benefits managers; to prohibit pharmacy benefits managers from requiring the use of mail-order pharmacies under certain conditions; to provide for exceptions; to provide for certain prohibitions; to provide for enforcement; to provide a short title; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date and applicability; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

Votes

• PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — 51–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ben Watson — primary (person)
• Blake Tillery — primary (person)
• Brandon Beach — primary (person)
• Burt Jones — primary (person)
• Butch Miller — primary (person)
• Chuck Payne — primary (person)
• Chuck Hufstetler — primary (person)
• Curt Thompson — primary (person)
• Dean Burke — primary (person)
• Donzella James — primary (person)
• Ed Harbison — primary (person)
• Elena Parent — primary (person)
• Ellis Black — primary (person)
• Frank Ginn — primary (person)
• Gloria Butler — primary (person)
• Greg Kirk — primary (person)
• Hunter Hill — primary (person)
• Jack Hill — primary (person)
• Jeff Mullis — primary (person)
• Jesse Stone — primary (person)
• John Albers — primary (person)
• John Kennedy — primary (person)
• Lawrence Walker III — primary (person)
• Marty Harbin — primary (person)
• Matt Brass — primary (person)
• Michael 'Doc' Rhett — primary (person)
• Michael Williams — primary (person)
• Mike Dugan — primary (person)
• Nan Orrock — primary (person)
• P. K. Martin IV — primary (person)
• Steve Gooch — primary (person)
• Steve Henson — primary (person)
• Tyler Harper — primary (person)
• William Ligon, Jr. — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-01-31 Senate Hopper
• 2017-02-01 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2017-02-23 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-02-24 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2017-02-28 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2017-02-28 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2017-03-01 House First Readers reading-1
• 2017-03-03 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2017-03-09 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-03-16 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2017-03-16 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2017-04-03 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2017-05-08 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2017-05-08 Act 196 executive-signature
• 2017-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d60bb039-a462-4d12-b241-495b383d0e01. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).