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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Insurance; provide for insurance compliance self-evaluative privilege; provisions"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 2 of Title 33 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the department and Commissioner of Insurance, so as to provide for insurance compliance self-evaluative privilege; to provide for intent; to provide for definitions; to provide for an insurance compliance self-evaluative audit document as privileged information; to provide for inadmissibility in certain legal actions; to provide for applications and exceptions; to provide for the burden of proof; to provide for related matters; to provide for an automatic repeal date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
+legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
+session: "2015_16"
+identifier: "HB 162"
+citation: "Georgia HB 162 (2015_16)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Chuck Efstration", "Darlene Taylor", "Eddie Lumsden", "Howard Maxwell", "Jason Shaw"]
+version_count: 8
+action_count: 17
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2015-01-28"
+last_action: "2015-07-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2e25d891-8066-4111-bb8c-69e0f5af6aaf"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "65c37962454d714ca65007e6061ab2a12690824f632fdae71bfc8a9641fa3293"
+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 HB 162 (2015_16) — Insurance; provide for insurance compliance self-evaluative privilege; provisions
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 2 of Title 33 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the department and Commissioner of Insurance, so as to provide for insurance compliance self-evaluative privilege; to provide for intent; to provide for definitions; to provide for an insurance compliance self-evaluative audit document as privileged information; to provide for inadmissibility in certain legal actions; to provide for applications and exceptions; to provide for the burden of proof; to provide for related matters; to provide for an automatic repeal date; 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. **Floor Amendment - Weldon of the 3rd** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/148622.pdf)
+2. **HB 162/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/153896.pdf)
+3. **HB 162/CSFA** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/148515.pdf)
+4. **LC 37 1884/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/146227.pdf)
+5. **LC 37 1911S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/147489.pdf)
+6. **SCSFA TO HB 162** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/153069.pdf)
+7. **Sen ctee sub LC 37 2007S** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/152460.pdf)
+8. **Sen fl amend 1 AM 37 0289** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/153046.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **163–3** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Chuck Efstration — primary (person)
+- Darlene Taylor — primary (person)
+- Eddie Lumsden — primary (person)
+- Howard Maxwell — primary (person)
+- Jason Shaw — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2015-01-28** House Hopper
+- **2015-01-29** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2015-02-02** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2015-02-11** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2015-02-18** House Postponed
+- **2015-02-19** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2015-02-19** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2015-02-20** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2015-03-26** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2015-03-26** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2015-03-31** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2015-03-31** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2015-04-02** House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
+- **2015-04-09** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2015-05-06** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2015-05-06** Act 117 `executive-signature`
+- **2015-07-01** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2e25d891-8066-4111-bb8c-69e0f5af6aaf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+