republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2013-14/hb-179.md

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Bill	Pharmacies; The Pharmacy Audit Bill of Rights; change certain provisions	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 6 of Chapter 4 of Title 26 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to pharmacies, so as to change certain provisions relating to The Pharmacy Audit Bill of Rights; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2013_14	HB 179	Georgia HB 179 (2013_14)	bill		enacted	Andrew Welch Brian Strickland Buddy Harden Butch Parrish Roger Rutledge Ron Stephens	4	17	1	2013-01-31	2013-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/11b7b06e-8e82-46a1-90b2-735a16ab3faa	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	676fc9f2238d113bcab9651d2d8e36071588647d9650de75d264432556fb71cd	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 179 (2013_14) — Pharmacies; The Pharmacy Audit Bill of Rights; change certain provisions

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 6 of Chapter 4 of Title 26 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to pharmacies, so as to change certain provisions relating to The Pharmacy Audit Bill of Rights; 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 179/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 41 0040/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 41 0063S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 41 0063S/hs (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 161–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Andrew Welch — primary (person)
• Brian Strickland — primary (person)
• Buddy Harden — primary (person)
• Butch Parrish — primary (person)
• Roger Rutledge — primary (person)
• Ron Stephens — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-01-31 House Hopper
• 2013-02-01 House First Readers reading-1
• 2013-02-04 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2013-02-20 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-02-22 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2013-02-22 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2013-02-25 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2013-03-20 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-03-21 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2013-03-26 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2013-03-26 Senate Tabled
• 2013-03-28 Senate Taken from Table
• 2013-03-28 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2013-04-03 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2013-05-06 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2013-05-06 Act 189 executive-signature
• 2013-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/11b7b06e-8e82-46a1-90b2-735a16ab3faa. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).