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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Insurance; create the crime of staging a motor vehicle collision"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 1 of Title 33 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions regarding insurance, so as to create the crime of staging a motor vehicle collision; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
+legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
+session: "2019_20"
+identifier: "HB 353"
+citation: "Georgia HB 353 (2019_20)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Kasey Carpenter", "Marc Morris", "Martin Momtahan", "Noel Williams, Jr.", "Wes Cantrell"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2019-02-19"
+last_action: "2019-04-25"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c5d320a3-e582-4a94-8293-7fba939fe33a"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "37e8e93b4936f1cdfc61d0b59696b39ee79bfa641f81256579a53a729feb40bd"
+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 353 (2019_20) — Insurance; create the crime of staging a motor vehicle collision
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 1 of Title 33 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions regarding insurance, so as to create the crime of staging a motor vehicle collision; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective 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. **HB 353/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/187595.pdf)
+2. **LC 34 5513/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/181811.pdf)
+3. **LC 34 5541S/hcs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/184083.pdf)
+4. **LC 34 5541S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/183631.pdf)
+5. **Sen ctee sub LC 41 2023S** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/185973.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **93–76** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Kasey Carpenter — primary (person)
+- Marc Morris — primary (person)
+- Martin Momtahan — primary (person)
+- Noel Williams, Jr. — primary (person)
+- Wes Cantrell — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-02-19** House Hopper
+- **2019-02-20** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2019-02-21** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2019-03-04** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-07** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2019-03-07** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2019-03-08** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-26** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-26** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2019-03-28** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2019-03-28** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2019-04-02** House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
+- **2019-04-11** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-04-25** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2019-04-25** Act 40 `executive-signature`
+- **2019-04-25** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c5d320a3-e582-4a94-8293-7fba939fe33a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+