HR397: HR397 House Study Committee on Healthcare Quality and Reporting; create

Georgia lawmakers have raised concerns about healthcare quality, cost, and how clinical and claims data are collected and reported. This resolution does not change any law directly. Instead, it creates the House Study Committee on Healthcare Quality and Reporting to look into these issues over the coming months. The nine-member committee would include five state representatives and four non-legislative members from the Department of Community Health, a statewide healthcare data initiative, a healthcare data analyst, and a Medicaid care management organization. It would study topics such as data integration between clinical and claims records, HIPAA compliance, and penalties for noncompliance, then report any recommended legislation. The committee would be funded through existing House appropriations and would automatically end on December 1, 2025.

• Creates the nine-member House Study Committee on Healthcare Quality and Reporting to examine healthcare data reporting issues in Georgia.
• Directs the Speaker of the House to appoint five legislative members and four non-legislative members, including a Department of Community Health representative and a Medicaid care management organization representative.
• Authorizes the committee to study healthcare reporting's effect on Medicaid care management organizations, insurers, and providers, and to recommend legislation.
• Sets daily expense allowances and mileage reimbursement for committee members under existing state pay rules (O.C.G.A. §§ 28-1-8 and 45-7-21).
• Requires the committee to file a report or meeting minutes with the Clerk of the House before it disbands.
• Abolishes the committee automatically on December 1, 2025.

The resolution affects the state representatives and outside experts who would serve on the committee, along with the Georgia Department of Community Health, Medicaid care management organizations, healthcare data analysts, insurers, and healthcare providers whose data practices the committee would study.

No law changes immediately, but the committee's work could shape future legislation on how Georgia collects and reports healthcare data, which affects patient privacy protections, provider paperwork burdens, and how Medicaid managed care performance gets measured and penalized.

• Paragraph (1) formally creates the House Study Committee on Healthcare Quality and Reporting.
• Paragraph (2) sets committee membership at nine: five legislators appointed by the Speaker and four non-legislative members representing state health agencies, a data initiative, a data analyst, and a Medicaid managed care organization.
• Paragraph (3) charges the committee with studying healthcare reporting issues and recommending action or legislation.
• Paragraph (5) sets member allowances, capping paid days at five unless additional days are authorized, funded through House appropriations.
• Paragraph (6) requires a majority-approved report or, absent that, meeting minutes to be filed with the Clerk of the House before the committee dissolves.
• Paragraph (7) abolishes the committee on December 1, 2025.

1. 2025-02-28House Second Readers (House)
2. 2025-02-27House First Readers (House)
3. 2025-02-26House Hopper (House)

• Sharon Cooper (R, HD-045)Primary sponsor
• Deborah Silcox (R, HD-053)
• Mark Newton (R, HD-127)
• Michelle Au (D, HD-050)
• Lee Hawkins (R, HD-027)

• healthcare quality
• Medicaid
• healthcare data reporting
• study committee
• health insurance regulation