Several public health bills have made significant progress toward passage in the Georgia General Assembly, including help for nurses facing addiction, a pathway for foreign-trained doctors to practice, and a measure allowing pharmacists to prescribe HIV drugs.
They are among the bills that survived Friday’s “crossover day” deadline, when they move from the House of Representatives or Senate where they originated to the other chamber for debate. Once they pass the opposite chamber, the bills go to Gov. Brian Kemp for his signature.
A bill that would have barred elected officials from doing business with the state government failed to pass before the deadline.
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