‘A Big Health Care Year’ Under The Gold Dome

A Georgia proposal requiring elementary school students to have daily recess had failed in recent years, but in the 2019 General Assembly session, House Bill 83 sailed through. The bill “encourages’’ schools to make recess 30 minutes long. This recess legislation, along with other bills, put a cap on a General Assembly session that is potentially the most consequential for Georgia health care in decades.

The battles over hospital regulation and financial disclosure appeared to be finished last week at the Georgia Legislature.

But on Tuesday, as the 2019 General Assembly session was wrapping up, these prickly issues proved they weren’t dead after all.

An attempt to allow a sports medicine and training center in Alpharetta failed to clear the House Rules Committee on Tuesday. The proposed Legacy Sports Institute, endorsed by many sports VIPs, was included in some initial certificate-of-need (CON) bills, but ran into roadblocks along its legislative journey.