republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2019-20/sb-121.md

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Bill	Prescription Drug Monitoring Program Data Base; length of time prescription information is retained from two years to five years; increase	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 2 of Article 2 of Chapter 13 of Title 16 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the prescription drug monitoring program data base, so as to increase the length of time that prescription information is retained in the data base from two years to five years; to authorize the Attorney General's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit to access the data base for enforcement purposes; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2019_20	SB 121	Georgia SB 121 (2019_20)	bill		enacted	Bill Cowsert Burt Jones Butch Miller Chuck Hufstetler Dean Burke Freddie Sims Greg Kirk Jeff Mullis Jesse Stone John Kennedy Larry Walker, III Renee Unterman Steve Gooch	4	15	1	2019-02-15	2019-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/3bb31834-1b63-45bc-8b9b-1a082d44ef66	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	26b6e28571fd2620772db285d4a78ff367a9730762309f9430c7012aa1d75222	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 121 (2019_20) — Prescription Drug Monitoring Program Data Base; length of time prescription information is retained from two years to five years; increase

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 2 of Article 2 of Chapter 13 of Title 16 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the prescription drug monitoring program data base, so as to increase the length of time that prescription information is retained in the data base from two years to five years; to authorize the Attorney General's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit to access the data base for enforcement purposes; 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 33 7700 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 33 7844S (committee substitute) — source
4. SB 121/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — 51–1 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bill Cowsert — primary (person)
• Burt Jones — primary (person)
• Butch Miller — primary (person)
• Chuck Hufstetler — primary (person)
• Dean Burke — primary (person)
• Freddie Sims — primary (person)
• Greg Kirk — primary (person)
• Jeff Mullis — primary (person)
• Jesse Stone — primary (person)
• John Kennedy — primary (person)
• Larry Walker, III — primary (person)
• Renee Unterman — primary (person)
• Steve Gooch — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-15 Senate Hopper
• 2019-02-19 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2019-02-28 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-03-01 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2019-03-07 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2019-03-07 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2019-03-08 House First Readers reading-1
• 2019-03-11 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2019-03-14 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-03-21 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2019-03-21 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2019-04-05 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2019-05-07 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2019-05-07 Act 299 executive-signature
• 2019-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3bb31834-1b63-45bc-8b9b-1a082d44ef66. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).