House Bill 506 started as a proposal to help Medicaid patients quit smoking and ended as an ambulance-billing law. The transformation offers a window into a longstanding Gold Dome practice that even lawmakers say can be difficult for the public to follow.
Maya T. Prabhu
Maya T. Prabhu is the editorial director and chief operations officer at PeachPol. She has spent nearly a decade covering Georgia politics, state government and major policy debates from the Capitol, the campaign trail and communities across the state. Before joining PeachPol, she reported for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and covered state and local government in South Carolina and Maryland.

