republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2023-24/hb-557.md

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Bill	Professions and businesses; authority to certain nurses and physician assistants to prescribe Schedule II controlled substances; authorize	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 34 of Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to physicians, assistants, and others, so as to authorize physicians to delegate the authority to advanced practice registered nurses and physician assistants to prescribe Schedule II controlled substances; provide for requirements; to provide for automatic approval of nurse protocol agreements and job descriptions under certain conditions; to provide for legislative findings; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2023_24	HB 557	Georgia HB 557 (2023_24)	bill		enacted	Alan Powell Butch Parrish Debbie Buckner Jan Jones Kim Schofield Ron Stephens	11	24	5	2023-02-22	2024-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/929e7eb4-fc11-4b31-a593-46ed1b25012c	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	f151b8560bab808938698871c3228f8d907628e72ff3a3a2159d41f8adfe36a5	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 557 (2023_24) — Professions and businesses; authority to certain nurses and physician assistants to prescribe Schedule II controlled substances; authorize

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 34 of Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to physicians, assistants, and others, so as to authorize physicians to delegate the authority to advanced practice registered nurses and physician assistants to prescribe Schedule II controlled substances; provide for requirements; to provide for automatic approval of nurse protocol agreements and job descriptions under certain conditions; to provide for legislative findings; 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. Floor Amendment AM 36 0963 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB 557/AP* (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 33 9429/a (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 33 9466S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
5. LC 33 9466S/hs (committee substitute) — source
6. LC 33 9600S/CCR (committee substitute) — source
7. SCSFA TO HB 557 (committee substitute) — source
8. Sen ctee sub LC 33 9505S (committee substitute) — source
9. Sen floor amend 1 AM 33 2037 (committee substitute) — source
10. Sen floor amend 2 AM 33 2040 (committee substitute) — source
11. Sen floor amend 2A (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate Vote #318 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 53–1 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #186 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 136–38 (pass) · lower
• Senate Vote #484 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 49–3 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #445 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 132–35 (pass) · lower
• House Vote #345 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 173–2 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Alan Powell — primary (person)
• Butch Parrish — primary (person)
• Debbie Buckner — primary (person)
• Jan Jones — primary (person)
• Kim Schofield — primary (person)
• Ron Stephens — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-22 House Hopper introduction
• 2023-02-23 House First Readers reading-1
• 2023-02-27 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2023-03-01 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-03-06 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2023-03-06 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2023-03-07 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2023-03-20 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-03-20 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2023-03-27 Senate Tabled
• 2023-03-27 Senate Taken from Table
• 2023-03-27 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2023-03-27 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2023-03-29 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub As Amended
• 2023-03-29 Senate Disagreed House Amend or Sub
• 2023-03-29 House Insisted
• 2023-03-29 House Conference Committee Appointed 164th, 158th, 47th
• 2023-03-29 Senate Conference Committee Appointed 20th, 32nd, 52nd
• 2024-02-08 House Conference Committee Report Adopted
• 2024-02-08 Senate Conference Committee Report Adopted
• 2024-04-01 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-04-22 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2024-04-22 Act 394 executive-signature
• 2024-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/929e7eb4-fc11-4b31-a593-46ed1b25012c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).