ATLANTA – State Representative Imani Barnes (D-Tucker) will hold a press conference on the Healthy Start Act on Tuesday, February 18, 2025, at 12:15 p.m. at the South Wing Steps of the Georgia State Capitol.
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ATLANTA – State Representative Imani Barnes (D-Tucker) recently introduced House Bill 149, also known as the Healthy Mothers Now Act, which would require the Georgia Department of Public Health to conduct a three-year pilot program for the purpose of providing postpartum care through mobile health clinics in counties with limited maternity care and maternity care deserts.
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ATLANTA – State Representative Imani Barnes (D-Tucker) recently reintroduced the “Safe Teens Act,” legislation originally introduced as House Bill 914 during the 2024 legislative session. This year’s version, House Bill 106, would authorize local boards of education and other public school governing bodies to offer driver education as an elective course worth one-half of an elective credit for students.
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ATLANTA – State Representative Imani Barnes (D-Tucker) recently reintroduced the “EmPATH Georgia Act,” legislation originally introduced as House Bill 913, during the 2024 legislative session. This year’s version, House Bill 109, provides for a 5-year pilot program that would require the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities to coordinate with the Georgia Department of Community Health (DCH) to establish a grant program for creating emergency psychiatric assessments, treatment and healing (EmPATH) units in hospitals. House Bill 109 would further require grant funding for the creation, development and operation of at least two EmPATH units, one in a rural county and the other in an urban county.
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ATLANTA – The Georgia House of Representatives’ Committee on Assignments recently named State Representative Imani Barnes (D-Tucker) to serve on the House Higher Education, Public and Community Health and Technology and Infrastructure Innovation committees for the 2025-2026 legislative term.
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