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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Surprise Billing Consumer Protection Act; enact"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 33 of the O.C.G.A., relating to insurance, so as to provide for certain consumer protections against surprise billing; to provide for a short title; to provide for applicability; to provide for definitions; to provide mechanisms to resolve payment disputes between insurers and out-of-network providers regarding the provision of healthcare services; to require the department to provide for the maintenance of an all-payer health claims data base; to provide for in-network cost-sharing amounts in healthcare plan contracts; to establish an arbitration process; to require the Commissioner of Insurance to contract with one or more resolution organizations; to require the promulgation of department rules; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
+legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
+session: "2019_20"
+identifier: "HB 888"
+citation: "Georgia HB 888 (2019_20)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Calvin Smyre", "Eddie Lumsden", "Gerald Greene", "Jodi Lott", "Lee Hawkins", "Terry Rogers"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 17
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2020-02-04"
+last_action: "2021-01-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e948a12d-1f05-4ab6-a978-70de61d3b87d"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "4252ac00dde53e8ed953deb8eff2169cdcb1fdfbcc534775d76bdd28676a890a"
+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 888 (2019_20) — Surprise Billing Consumer Protection Act; enact
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 33 of the O.C.G.A., relating to insurance, so as to provide for certain consumer protections against surprise billing; to provide for a short title; to provide for applicability; to provide for definitions; to provide mechanisms to resolve payment disputes between insurers and out-of-network providers regarding the provision of healthcare services; to require the department to provide for the maintenance of an all-payer health claims data base; to provide for in-network cost-sharing amounts in healthcare plan contracts; to establish an arbitration process; to require the Commissioner of Insurance to contract with one or more resolution organizations; to require the promulgation of department rules; 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 888/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/194379.pdf)
+2. **LC 46 0246/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/189358.pdf)
+3. **LC 46 0275S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/190084.pdf)
+4. **LC 46 0302S/hcs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/191890.pdf)
+5. **LC 46 0302S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/191461.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **164–4** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Calvin Smyre — primary (person)
+- Eddie Lumsden — primary (person)
+- Gerald Greene — primary (person)
+- Jodi Lott — primary (person)
+- Lee Hawkins — primary (person)
+- Terry Rogers — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-02-04** House Hopper
+- **2020-02-05** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2020-02-18** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2020-02-19** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-02-19** House Withdrawn, Recommitted `withdrawal, referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-28** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-03-03** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2020-03-03** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2020-03-04** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2020-06-15** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-06-16** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2020-06-17** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2020-06-17** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2020-06-29** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-07-16** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2020-07-16** Act 470 `executive-signature`
+- **2021-01-01** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e948a12d-1f05-4ab6-a978-70de61d3b87d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+