republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2013-14/hb-132.md

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Bill	Georgia Board of Pharmacy and Georgia Board of Dentistry; administratively attached to Department of Community Health; provide	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 4 of Title 26 and Chapter 11 of Title 43 of the O.C.G.A., relating to pharmacists and pharmacies and dentists, dental hygienists, and dental assistants, respectively, so as to provide that the Georgia State Board of Pharmacy and the Georgia Board of Dentistry are transferred from being administratively attached from the Secretary of State to the Department of Community Health; to provide for the powers and duties of each board; to authorize each board to employ an executive director; to provide for the powers and duties of such executive directors; to provide for additional powers of the Georgia Drugs and Narcotics Agency; to provide for a census of dentists and dental hygienists; to revise provisions relating to qualifications of applicants to practice dentistry; to provide for notice of felonies by licensees; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2013_14	HB 132	Georgia HB 132 (2013_14)	bill		enacted	Ben Watson Buddy Harden Carl Rogers Edward Lindsey Lee Hawkins Mickey Channell	6	17	1	2013-01-29	2013-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/8cb00a3f-4efe-4928-9cdc-d8c1dcc58123	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	6141a5b6424877fdc64213c08b883baeb8aebe2668feb27c9fa33ba164c2fdf1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 132 (2013_14) — Georgia Board of Pharmacy and Georgia Board of Dentistry; administratively attached to Department of Community Health; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 4 of Title 26 and Chapter 11 of Title 43 of the O.C.G.A., relating to pharmacists and pharmacies and dentists, dental hygienists, and dental assistants, respectively, so as to provide that the Georgia State Board of Pharmacy and the Georgia Board of Dentistry are transferred from being administratively attached from the Secretary of State to the Department of Community Health; to provide for the powers and duties of each board; to authorize each board to employ an executive director; to provide for the powers and duties of such executive directors; to provide for additional powers of the Georgia Drugs and Narcotics Agency; to provide for a census of dentists and dental hygienists; to revise provisions relating to qualifications of applicants to practice dentistry; to provide for notice of felonies by licensees; 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. HB 132/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 33 4924/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 33 4988S/hs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 33 5047S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
5. LC 33 5047S/hs (committee substitute) — source
6. Sen floor amend 1 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 122–46 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Ben Watson — primary (person)
• Buddy Harden — primary (person)
• Carl Rogers — primary (person)
• Edward Lindsey — primary (person)
• Lee Hawkins — primary (person)
• Mickey Channell — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-01-29 House Hopper
• 2013-01-30 House First Readers reading-1
• 2013-01-31 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2013-02-07 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-02-11 House Withdrawn, Recommitted referral-committee, withdrawal
• 2013-02-21 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-03-07 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2013-03-07 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2013-03-11 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2013-03-25 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-03-25 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2013-03-26 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2013-03-26 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2013-04-09 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2013-04-25 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2013-04-25 Act 83 executive-signature
• 2013-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8cb00a3f-4efe-4928-9cdc-d8c1dcc58123. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).