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ATLANTA – State Representative Sharon Cooper (R-Marietta), Chairman of the House Health and Human Services Committee, was recently honored by the Medical Association of Georgia (MAG) as the first recipient of its Hall of Fame Award during the organization’s House of Delegates (HOD) meeting on Jekyll Island on October 20, 2018.
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ATLANTA – State Representative Sharon Cooper (R-Marietta), Chairman of the House Health and Human Services Committee, today announced that she will oversee the House Health and Human Services Subcommittee on Opioid Alternatives, E-Prescribing, Harm Reduction, Step Therapy and Bariatric Surgery benefits for State Health Benefit Plan participants. Continue reading “Rep. Cooper to Chair Subcommittee on Opioid Alternatives, E-Prescribing, Harm Reduction & Other Health Care Issues from the 2018 Legislative Session”
ATLANTA – State Representative Sharon Cooper (R-Marietta) is one of only 25 legislators from across the country who was recently selected to participate in the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) inaugural Opioid Policy Fellows Program for 2018. This program is designed to support state legislators who are leaders on opioid addiction and overdose issues. Continue reading “Rep. Cooper Named NCSL Opioid Policy Fellow”
ATLANTA – State Representative Sharon Cooper (R-Marietta), chairman of the House Health & Human Services Committee, recently took part in a study tour of the Criminal Mental Health Project (CMHP) in Miami, Florida, October 25 – October 27, 2017. A nationally renowned program run by the Eleventh Judicial Circuit, CMHP diverts nonviolent defendants with serious mental illnesses and substance abuse disorders from the criminal justice system into community-based treatment programs. Rep. Cooper is a past chair of the Human Services and Public Safety Committee of the Southern Legislative Conference (SLC), which sponsored the study tour. Continue reading “Rep. Sharon Cooper Participates in Study Tour of Criminal Mental Health Project”
ATLANTA – Speaker David Ralston (R-Blue Ridge) today announced he has appointed the following members to the Federal and State Funded Health Care Financing Programs Overview Committee: Continue reading “Speaker Ralston Announces Members of the Federal and State Funded Health Care Financing Programs Overview Committee”