republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2013-14/hb-943.md

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Bill	Cancer Treatment Fairness Act; enact	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 24 of Title 33 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions regarding insurance generally, so as to require that a health benefit policy that provides coverage for intravenously administered or injected chemotherapy for the treatment of cancer shall provide coverage no less favorable for orally administered chemotherapy; to provide a short title; to provide for definitions; to provide prohibited actions; to provide an effective date; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2013_14	HB 943	Georgia HB 943 (2013_14)	bill		enacted	Bruce Broadrick Lee Hawkins Matt Ramsey Richard Smith Sharon Cooper Virgil Fludd	5	19	1	2014-02-06	2014-04-15	openstates	ocd-bill/dbe65008-5985-409e-b5ff-0d9927d53f86	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	2a7f630a9e21d461e2b41ca61972f634b0663913d2814543869ea3ef93987206	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 943 (2013_14) — Cancer Treatment Fairness Act; enact

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 24 of Title 33 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions regarding insurance generally, so as to require that a health benefit policy that provides coverage for intravenously administered or injected chemotherapy for the treatment of cancer shall provide coverage no less favorable for orally administered chemotherapy; to provide a short title; to provide for definitions; to provide prohibited actions; to provide an effective date; 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. HB 943/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 33 5485/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 37 1740S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 37 1740S/hs (committee substitute) — source
5. Sen ctee sub LC 37 1788S (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 158–6 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bruce Broadrick — primary (person)
• Lee Hawkins — primary (person)
• Matt Ramsey — primary (person)
• Richard Smith — primary (person)
• Sharon Cooper — primary (person)
• Virgil Fludd — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2014-02-06 House Hopper
• 2014-02-07 House First Readers reading-1
• 2014-02-10 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2014-02-19 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2014-02-21 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2014-02-21 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2014-02-24 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2014-03-12 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2014-03-12 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2014-03-13 Senate Tabled
• 2014-03-13 Senate Taken from Table
• 2014-03-13 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2014-03-13 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2014-03-18 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub As Amended
• 2014-03-18 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2014-03-26 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2014-04-15 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2014-04-15 Act 529 executive-signature
• 2014-04-15 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/dbe65008-5985-409e-b5ff-0d9927d53f86. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).