republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2019-20/sb-391.md

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Bill	"Early Prescription Refills During Emergencies Act"; health insurers to provide coverage for early refills of a 30 day supply; require; enact	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 24 of Title 33 of the O.C.G.A., relating to general provisions regarding insurance, so as to require health insurers to provide coverage for early refills of a 30 day supply of certain prescription medications under certain emergency situations; to amend Code Section 26-4-80 of the O.C.G.A., relating to license required for practice of pharmacy, dispensing of prescription drugs, prescription drug orders, electronically transmitted drug orders, refills, and schedule II controlled substance prescriptions, so as to allow pharmacists to dispense certain refill prescription medications under certain circumstances; to provide for related matters; to provide for a short title; to provide for legislative findings; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2019_20	SB 391	Georgia SB 391 (2019_20)	bill		enacted	Ben Watson Chuck Hufstetler Dean Burke John Albers Kay Kirkpatrick	4	16	1	2020-02-19	2020-08-05	openstates	ocd-bill/55dfddc7-1d48-45b4-9693-4ddafc2ebd83	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	555fd9da8962a50e963d39e0e600e031ba4cb739b3598e34e35055fd7f08666c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 391 (2019_20) — "Early Prescription Refills During Emergencies Act"; health insurers to provide coverage for early refills of a 30 day supply; require; enact

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 24 of Title 33 of the O.C.G.A., relating to general provisions regarding insurance, so as to require health insurers to provide coverage for early refills of a 30 day supply of certain prescription medications under certain emergency situations; to amend Code Section 26-4-80 of the O.C.G.A., relating to license required for practice of pharmacy, dispensing of prescription drugs, prescription drug orders, electronically transmitted drug orders, refills, and schedule II controlled substance prescriptions, so as to allow pharmacists to dispense certain refill prescription medications under certain circumstances; to provide for related matters; to provide for a short title; to provide for legislative findings; 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. As introduced LC 46 0273 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 46 0319S/hss (committee substitute) — source
4. SB391/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 55–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ben Watson — primary (person)
• Chuck Hufstetler — primary (person)
• Dean Burke — primary (person)
• John Albers — primary (person)
• Kay Kirkpatrick — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-02-19 Senate Hopper
• 2020-02-20 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2020-03-03 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-03-04 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2020-03-09 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2020-03-09 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2020-03-10 House First Readers reading-1
• 2020-03-12 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2020-06-17 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-06-19 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2020-06-19 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2020-06-24 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2020-06-25 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2020-08-05 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2020-08-05 Act 589 executive-signature
• 2020-08-05 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/55dfddc7-1d48-45b4-9693-4ddafc2ebd83. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).