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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Forgery and Fraudulent Practices; identity fraud; add medical identity fraud"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 9 of Title 16 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to forgery and fraudulent practices, so as to add medical identity fraud to the provisions relating to identity fraud; to provide for definitions; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
+legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
+session: "2013_14"
+identifier: "SB 170"
+citation: "Georgia SB 170 (2013_14)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Judson Hill"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2013-02-14"
+last_action: "2013-07-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/527e1177-d9f6-42e8-b337-8c493659c8cc"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "7f345aa941752d0dce8947114fd413f3d2aa298f7fcabac11a54da9032db935e"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ga"]
+---
+
+# Georgia SB 170 (2013_14) — Forgery and Fraudulent Practices; identity fraud; add medical identity fraud
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 9 of Title 16 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to forgery and fraudulent practices, so as to add medical identity fraud to the provisions relating to identity fraud; to provide for definitions; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **As introduced LC 28 6363** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/131004.pdf)
+2. **As passed Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/133621.pdf)
+3. **LC 29 5635S/hss** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/134446.pdf)
+4. **SB 170/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/137187.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **52–1** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Judson Hill — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2013-02-14** Senate Hopper
+- **2013-02-19** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2013-03-04** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2013-03-05** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2013-03-07** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2013-03-07** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2013-03-11** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2013-03-12** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2013-03-14** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2013-03-21** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2013-03-21** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2013-03-28** Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
+- **2013-04-09** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2013-05-07** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2013-05-07** Act 334 `executive-signature`
+- **2013-07-01** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/527e1177-d9f6-42e8-b337-8c493659c8cc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+