O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 51-1-29.6 (2019)

Liability of health care institutions and providers regarding THC oil

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)
Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.
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(a) As used in this Code section, the term:

(1) ‘‘Caregiver’’ shall have the same meaning as set forth in Code Section 31-2A-18.

(2) ‘‘Health care institution’’ shall have the same meaning as set forth in Code Section 51-1-29.5.

(3) ‘‘Health care provider’’ means any person licensed, certified, or registered under Chapter 9, 10A, 11, 11A, 26, 28, 30, 33, 34, 35, 39, or 44 of Title 43 or Chapter 4 of Title 26.

(4) ‘‘Low THC oil’’ shall have the same meaning as set forth in Code Section 16-12-190.

(b) A health care institution shall not be subject to any civil liability, penalty, licensing sanction, or other detrimental action and a health care provider shall not be subject to any civil liability, penalty, denial of a right or privilege, disciplinary action by a professional licensing board, or other detrimental action for allowing an individual or caregiver to possess, administer, or use low THC oil on the premises of a health care institution or offices of a health care provider, provided that the possession of such substance is in accordance with the laws of this state.

History

(Code 1981, § 51-1-29.6, enacted by Ga. L. 2015, p. 49, § 5-1/HB 1; Ga. L. 2016, p. 864, § 51/HB 737.)

Annotations

Editor’s notes. - Ga. L. 2015, p. 49, § 1-1/HB 1, not codified by the General

Assembly, provides that: ‘‘This Act shall be known and may be cited as the ‘Haleigh’s Hope Act.’ ’’

Law reviews. - For article on the 2015 enactment of this Code section, see 32 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 153 (2015).