republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/hb-886.md

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Bill	Pharmacy licenses; employing mails or common carriers to sell, distribute, and deliver prescription drugs; revise a provision	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 26-4-60 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to grounds for suspension, revocation, or refusal to grant pharmacy licenses, so as to revise a provision relating to employing the mails or common carriers to sell, distribute, and deliver prescription drugs; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	HB 886	Georgia HB 886 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Carl Rogers Charles Martin Richard Smith Sharon Cooper	4	15	1	2016-02-02	2016-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/9ac3311f-a964-494e-b36f-74a4b9756f34	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	60104ed381210be1c967e3a0ebe3c518d22a0e10621c6d26da3e36be421b25c1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 886 (2015_16) — Pharmacy licenses; employing mails or common carriers to sell, distribute, and deliver prescription drugs; revise a provision

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 26-4-60 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to grounds for suspension, revocation, or refusal to grant pharmacy licenses, so as to revise a provision relating to employing the mails or common carriers to sell, distribute, and deliver prescription drugs; 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 886/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 33 6363/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 33 6475S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 33 6475S/hs (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 155–4 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Carl Rogers — primary (person)
• Charles Martin — primary (person)
• Richard Smith — primary (person)
• Sharon Cooper — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-02 House Hopper
• 2016-02-03 House First Readers reading-1
• 2016-02-04 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2016-02-10 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-02-19 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2016-02-19 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2016-02-22 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2016-03-07 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-03-08 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2016-03-11 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2016-03-11 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2016-03-28 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2016-04-27 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2016-04-27 Act 468 executive-signature
• 2016-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9ac3311f-a964-494e-b36f-74a4b9756f34. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).