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Senate committee backs study of market concentration, approves five‑day limit on committee meetings
Summary
A Senate committee approved Senate Resolution 890 to form a study committee to examine market concentration across health care, housing and agriculture; members added language limiting member allowances to five days and did a voice vote (tally not specified).
A Senate committee approved Senate Resolution 890 on a voice vote as amended, creating a study committee to examine whether market concentration is affecting prices and competition across sectors including housing, health care and agriculture.
Senator Ben Halpern, sponsor of SR 890, told the committee the measure "says, let's take a serious fact‑based look at how markets are functioning in Georgia today and whether they're still working the way we expect them to for consumers, small businesses, and Georgia families." He cited growing concentration in sectors such as pharmacy benefit management, where "three pharmacy benefit managers ... control roughly 75 to 80%…
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