republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2025-26/hb-196.md

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Bill	State employees' health insurance plan; drugs dispensed for self-administration; provisions	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 1 of Article 1 of Chapter 18 of Title 45 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to state employees' health insurance plan, so as to require that drugs dispensed to a covered person for self-administration under a state health plan be reimbursed using a transparent, index based price, plus a dispensing fee; to provide for definitions; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2025_26	HB 196	Georgia HB 196 (2025_26)	bill	INSURANCE PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES	enacted	Carolyn Hugley Darlene Taylor Matt Hatchett Matthew Gambill Rick Jasperse Trey Kelley	5	16	3	2025-01-30	2025-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/8657c88b-853a-4bae-aed9-3c9811d3b20f	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	88ce4ae0bcf93e337f81a1f02d782fed82e440108307242999bc8449db73b7ee	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 196 (2025_26) — State employees' health insurance plan; drugs dispensed for self-administration; provisions

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 1 of Article 1 of Chapter 18 of Title 45 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to state employees' health insurance plan, so as to require that drugs dispensed to a covered person for self-administration under a state health plan be reimbursed using a transparent, index based price, plus a dispensing fee; to provide for definitions; 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 196/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 57 0203/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 57 0229S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 57 0229S/hs (committee substitute) — source
5. Sen Ctee sub LC 57 0274S (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate Vote #299 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 55–0 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #66 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 168–0 (pass) · lower
• House Vote #355 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 166–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Carolyn Hugley — primary (person)
• Darlene Taylor — primary (person)
• Matt Hatchett — primary (person)
• Matthew Gambill — primary (person)
• Rick Jasperse — primary (person)
• Trey Kelley — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-30 House Hopper introduction
• 2025-02-03 House First Readers reading-1
• 2025-02-04 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2025-02-11 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-02-21 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2025-02-21 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2025-02-24 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2025-03-20 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-21 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2025-03-27 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2025-03-27 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2025-03-31 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
• 2025-04-07 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-05-14 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2025-05-14 Act 307 executive-signature
• 2025-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8657c88b-853a-4bae-aed9-3c9811d3b20f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).