Georgia Code
Part 2 - Prescription Drug Monitoring Program Data Base
§ 16-13-59. Information to Include for Each Schedule Ii, Iii, Iv, or v Controlled Substance Prescription; Compliance

History. Code 1981, § 16-13-59 , enacted by Ga. L. 2011, p. 659, § 2/SB 36; Ga. L. 2013, p. 127, § 10/HB 209; Ga. L. 2016, p. 202, § 1/HB 900; Ga. L. 2017, p. 319, § 1-2/HB 249; Ga. L. 2019, p. 933, § 1/SB 121.
The 2016 amendment, effective July 1, 2016, substituted “two years” for “one year” throughout subsection (e).
The 2017 amendment, effective July 1, 2017, substituted “department” for “agency” throughout this Code section; substituted “purposes of the PDMP” for “purposes of the program established pursuant to Code Section 16-13-57” in the first sentence of the introductory paragraph of subsection (a); in subsection (b), substituted “established by the department at least every 24 hours” for “and frequency requirements established by the agency on at least a weekly basis and shall report, at a minimum, such prescription information no later than ten days after the prescription is dispensed” in the first sentence and inserted “immediately” following “dispenser shall” in the second sentence; and, in subsection (e), substituted “PDMP” for “electronic data base” in the first sentence and substituted “The department may retain prescription information that has been processed to remove personal identifiers from the health information in compliance with the standard and implementation rules of the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996, P.L. 104-191, for more than two years” for “The agency may retain aggregated prescription information for a period of two years from the date the information is received” in the second sentence.
The 2019 amendment, effective July 1, 2019, substituted “five years” for “two years” in three places in subsection (e).
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).

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