HB 367 - Generic drugs; health insurance coverage; provisions

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Current Status

04/04/08 - Senate Passed/Adopted

First Reader Summary

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 5 of Chapter 4 of Title 26 of the O.C.G.A., relating to prescription drugs, so as to eliminate redundant language relating to what constitutes the practice of medicine; to provide for the substitution of therapeutically equivalent drugs; to provide for requirements for therapeutically equivalent substitutions; to provide that a substitution shall not constitute the practice of medicine; to amend Article 1 of Chapter 24 of Title 33 of the O.C.G.A., relating to insurance generally, so as to define certain terms; to provide for health insurance coverage for therapeutically equivalent substitutions under certain circumstances; to provide for statutory construction; to provide for enforcement by the Commissioner of Insurance; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

Votes

Electronically Recorded Votes
DateTimeVote NoYeasNaysNVExcDescription
03/06/20083:15PMHouse Vote #736156000008016PASS
04/04/20089:16PMSenate Vote #1036048002001005PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE

Status History

Bill History
DateAction
02/10/2007House First Readers
02/12/2007House Second Readers
03/04/2008House Committee Favorably Reported
03/06/2008House Third Readers
03/06/2008House Passed/Adopted
03/11/2008Senate Read and Referred
03/27/2008Senate Committee Favorably Reported
03/28/2008Senate Read Second Time
04/02/2008Senate Tabled
04/04/2008Senate Taken from Table
04/04/2008Senate Third Read
04/04/2008Senate Passed/Adopted

Footnotes

4/2/2008 Tabled in Senate
4/4/2008 Removed from the Table in Senate