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Bill	Pharmacists; dispense up to a 90 day supply of a maintenance medication under certain conditions; authorize	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 26-4-80 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to license required for practice of pharmacy, dispensing prescription drugs, prescription drug orders, electronically transmitting drug orders, refills, and Schedule II controlled substance prescriptions, so as to authorize a pharmacist to dispense up to a 90 day supply of a maintenance medication under certain conditions; to provide for exceptions; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2019_20	HB 791	Georgia HB 791 (2019_20)	bill		enacted	Ron Stephens	5	17	1	2020-01-16	2020-08-05	openstates	ocd-bill/b4b21062-9f99-46c8-96b9-25e304af0d6d	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	d143a909de8c58731ed3efb71b212078868b3338e693fe3a60c8bf0e07812fa7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 791 (2019_20) — Pharmacists; dispense up to a 90 day supply of a maintenance medication under certain conditions; authorize

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 26-4-80 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to license required for practice of pharmacy, dispensing prescription drugs, prescription drug orders, electronically transmitting drug orders, refills, and Schedule II controlled substance prescriptions, so as to authorize a pharmacist to dispense up to a 90 day supply of a maintenance medication under certain conditions; to provide for exceptions; 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 791/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 33 8123/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 33 8293S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 33 8293S/hs (committee substitute) — source
5. Sen ctee sub LC 33 8415S (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 164–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Ron Stephens — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-16 House Hopper
• 2020-01-27 House First Readers reading-1
• 2020-01-28 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2020-03-02 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-03-10 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2020-03-10 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2020-03-12 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2020-06-18 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-06-19 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2020-06-22 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2020-06-22 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2020-06-22 Senate Transmitted House
• 2020-06-25 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
• 2020-06-30 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2020-08-05 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2020-08-05 Act 590 executive-signature
• 2020-08-05 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b4b21062-9f99-46c8-96b9-25e304af0d6d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).