Georgia Code
Part 2 - Prescription Drug Monitoring Program Data Base
§ 16-13-57. Program to Record Prescription Information Into Electronic Data Base; Administration and Oversight

History. Code 1981, § 16-13-57 , enacted by Ga. L. 2011, p. 659, § 2/SB 36; Ga. L. 2017, p. 319, § 1-2/HB 249; Ga. L. 2018, p. 1112, § 16/SB 365; Ga. L. 2019, p. 273, § 1A/HB 551; Ga. L. 2020, p. 493, § 16/SB 429.
The 2017 amendment, effective July 1, 2017, added subsection (a); redesignated former subsection (a) as present subsection (b); rewrote subsection (b); and added subsections (c) and (d).
The 2018 amendment, effective May 8, 2018, part of an Act to revise, modernize, and correct the Code, revised punctuation near the end of the second sentence of subsection (b).
The 2019 amendment, effective April 26, 2019, designated the existing provisions of subsection (c) as paragraph (c)(1) and added paragraphs (c)(2) and (c)(3).
The 2020 amendment, effective July 29, 2020, part of an Act to revise, modernize, and correct the Code, substituted “April 26, 2019,” for “the effective date of this Act” in the first sentence of paragraph (c)(2).
Code Commission notes.
Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 2019, “April 26, 2019” was substituted for “the effective date of this Act” near the beginning of paragraph (c)(3).
Editor’s notes.
Ga. L. 2017, p. 319, § 1-1/HB 249, not codified by the General Assembly, provides: “This part shall be known and may be cited as the ‘Jeffrey Dallas Gay, Jr., Act.’ ”
Law reviews.
For article, “Crimes and Offenses: Controlled Substances,” see 28 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 269 (2011).
For article on the 2017 amendment of this Code section, see 34 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 143 (2017).
For annual survey on healthcare law, see 70 Mercer L. Rev. 1053 (2019).

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