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GA SB367

Bill

Status

Engrossed

3/6/2026

Primary Sponsor

Bill Cowsert

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Origin

Senate

2025-2026 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Exempts cancer-focused health care facilities, services, and equipment from Georgia's certificate of need (CON) requirements, including hospitals, clinics, ambulatory surgical centers, radiation therapy, chemotherapy, and oncology research facilities

  • Covers medical technology such as linear accelerators, proton therapy systems, and PET scanners used primarily for cancer detection, diagnosis, or treatment

  • Requires exempt facilities to comply with federal and state oncology regulations, submit patient volume and treatment data to verify compliance, and provide annual reports

  • Exemption applies regardless of ownership structure, hospital affiliation, or location within Georgia

  • Exemption does not apply to facilities within 35 miles of an existing nonprofit sole community hospital (per 42 C.F.R. 412.92) that already offers chemotherapy or radiation therapy

Legislative Description

Certificate of Need; health care facilities, services, and equipment dedicated exclusively to the treatment of cancer; provide for exemption

Last Action

House Second Readers

3/10/2026

Committee Referrals

Health3/9/2026
Regulated Industries and Utilities3/28/2025

Full Bill Text

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