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type: "Bill"
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title: "\"The Honorable Jimmy Carter Cancer Treatment Access Act\"; enact"
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description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 24 of Title 33 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general insurance provisions, so as to provide that no health benefit plan shall require an insured to fail to successfully respond to a drug or drugs for stage four advanced, metastatic cancer prior to the approval of a drug prescribed by his or her physician; to provide for definitions; to provide for a short title; to provide for legislative findings and intent; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
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legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
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session: "2015_16"
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identifier: "HB 965"
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citation: "Georgia HB 965 (2015_16)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Amy Carter", "Calvin Smyre", "Dee Dawkins-Haigler", "Gerald Greene", "Jon Burns", "Mike Cheokas"]
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version_count: 2
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action_count: 15
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vote_count: 1
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first_action: "2016-02-09"
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last_action: "2016-07-01"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e3e1a541-f588-450e-842d-d664f38d6eb5"
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source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
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source_hash: "61c06310e1f221c30aa70f64c0029b186691babafeee281c55f7a208febd6b95"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ga"]
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---
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# Georgia HB 965 (2015_16) — "The Honorable Jimmy Carter Cancer Treatment Access Act"; enact
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A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 24 of Title 33 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general insurance provisions, so as to provide that no health benefit plan shall require an insured to fail to successfully respond to a drug or drugs for stage four advanced, metastatic cancer prior to the approval of a drug prescribed by his or her physician; to provide for definitions; to provide for a short title; to provide for legislative findings and intent; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **HB 965/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/160507.pdf)
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2. **LC 37 2114/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/156998.pdf)
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## Votes
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- PASSAGE — **166–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Amy Carter — primary (person)
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- Calvin Smyre — primary (person)
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- Dee Dawkins-Haigler — primary (person)
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- Gerald Greene — primary (person)
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- Jon Burns — primary (person)
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- Mike Cheokas — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2016-02-09** House Hopper
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- **2016-02-10** House First Readers `reading-1`
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- **2016-02-11** House Second Readers `reading-2`
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- **2016-02-17** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2016-02-22** House Third Readers `reading-3`
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- **2016-02-22** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
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- **2016-02-23** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
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- **2016-03-10** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2016-03-11** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
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- **2016-03-14** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
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- **2016-03-14** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
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- **2016-03-28** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
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- **2016-04-27** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
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- **2016-04-27** Act 489 `executive-signature`
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- **2016-07-01** Effective Date
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e3e1a541-f588-450e-842d-d664f38d6eb5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
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