March 27, 2026

We successfully worked with Rep. Karen Mathiak last Thursday to strip the language out of HB 323 in the Senate Insurance Committee and replace it with the language from HB 170! That bill and language from HB 323 is now in the Senate Rules Committee. We will be trying to get it out of Senate Rules for a vote before April 2.

HB 170 was introduced by Rep. Karen Mathiak in the 2025 legislative session. Two weeks ago, it passed the House Insurance Committee didn’t make it out of the House Rules Committee! It provides for transparency in medical billing for chiropractors, physicians, patients, and all stakeholders on procedures and billing. It did not make it out of the House Rules Committee by Crossover Day this past Friday, so we successfully put it on HB 323 and passed it out of the Senate Insurance Committee.

HB 1088 was also introduced, and it puts the definition of a Chiropractor in the same language at the State level as it is at the Federal level. It is still in the House Health Committee.

The Speaker of the House and House leadership passed Insurance Reform in the 2026 session, after the House had a study committee hold several study committee hearings throughout 2025 until December 2025 focused on looking at insurance carriers, how they set premiums, their profits, and how to better reduce insurance premiums and improves the claims process for all stakeholders in Georgia. Bills have passed on this in the House and are now in the Senate Insurance Committee! These are good bills.

Senate Bill 411 from Senator Shawn Still is in the House now. It provides for dry needling to be performed by certain licensed professionals, restricts certain representations and advertisements related to the performance of dry needling, provides for education and training requirements for occupational therapists to perform dry needling, provides for disciplinary action, and training requirements for acupuncturists. It passed the Senate, and it passed in the House Rules Committee but was recommitted to Rules last week.