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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Insurance; Georgia Telemedicine Act; modernize; Telemedicine Act the Telehealth Act; rename"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 24 of Title 33 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to insurance generally, so as to modernize the Georgia Telemedicine Act; to rename the Telemedicine Act the Telehealth Act; to revise the definition of telemedicine; to provide a definition of telehealth; to prohibit insurers from requiring insureds to use telemedicine; to provide for pay equity for health care providers using telemedicine; to provide for related matters; to provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
+legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
+session: "2019_20"
+identifier: "SB 118"
+citation: "Georgia SB 118 (2019_20)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Brandon Beach", "Chuck Hufstetler", "Dean Burke", "Freddie Sims", "Gloria Butler", "Greg Kirk", "Jeff Mullis", "Larry Walker, III", "Renee Unterman", "Steve Gooch", "Steve Henson", "Valencia Seay"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2019-02-15"
+last_action: "2020-01-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/796ecd6e-54a7-45d3-b837-ac6e898b1ef1"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "2654db755803715fd2ba2a1b51e9dd6839b78c598c19019bd9e529c8bf507e2f"
+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 118 (2019_20) — Insurance; Georgia Telemedicine Act; modernize; Telemedicine Act the Telehealth Act; rename
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 24 of Title 33 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to insurance generally, so as to modernize the Georgia Telemedicine Act; to rename the Telemedicine Act the Telehealth Act; to revise the definition of telemedicine; to provide a definition of telehealth; to prohibit insurers from requiring insureds to use telemedicine; to provide for pay equity for health care providers using telemedicine; to provide for related matters; to provide 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. **As Introduced LC 46 0064** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/181694.pdf)
+2. **As passed Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/182903.pdf)
+3. **LC 46 0151S/hss** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/184406.pdf)
+4. **SB118/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/186762.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **50–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Brandon Beach — primary (person)
+- Chuck Hufstetler — primary (person)
+- Dean Burke — primary (person)
+- Freddie Sims — primary (person)
+- Gloria Butler — primary (person)
+- Greg Kirk — primary (person)
+- Jeff Mullis — primary (person)
+- Larry Walker, III — primary (person)
+- Renee Unterman — primary (person)
+- Steve Gooch — primary (person)
+- Steve Henson — primary (person)
+- Valencia Seay — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-02-15** Senate Hopper
+- **2019-02-19** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-22** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-02-25** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2019-02-26** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2019-02-26** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2019-02-27** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2019-02-28** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2019-03-13** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-26** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2019-03-26** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2019-03-28** Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
+- **2019-04-05** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-05-06** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2019-05-06** Act 155 `executive-signature`
+- **2020-01-01** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/796ecd6e-54a7-45d3-b837-ac6e898b1ef1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+