---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Employees; require a high deductible health care plan with health savings account; offered as an option"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 1 of Article 1 of Chapter 18 of Title 45 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to state employees' health insurance plan, so as to require that a high deductible health care plan with a health savings account be offered as an option for persons covered under the state employees' health insurance plan; 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 281"
citation: "Georgia SB 281 (2013_14)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Judson Hill"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2014-01-14"
last_action: "2014-04-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/17039d55-6f50-45f5-869c-413ea8f2d4f6"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "755633d74dc090dae6192a331a17ffdb933981ed23323958bc713fb7e12c8259"
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 281 (2013_14) — State Employees; require a high deductible health care plan with health savings account; offered as an option

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 1 of Article 1 of Chapter 18 of Title 45 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to state employees' health insurance plan, so as to require that a high deductible health care plan with a health savings account be offered as an option for persons covered under the state employees' health insurance plan; 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 6881** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/137401.pdf)
2. **As passed Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/141803.pdf)
3. **SB 281/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/144486.pdf)

## Votes

- MOTION TO ENGROSS — **32–16** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Judson Hill — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2014-01-14** Senate Hopper
- **2014-01-15** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2014-02-25** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2014-02-26** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2014-03-03** Senate Engrossed `passage`
- **2014-03-03** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2014-03-03** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2014-03-04** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2014-03-05** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2014-03-11** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2014-03-18** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2014-03-18** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2014-03-25** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2014-04-29** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2014-04-29** Veto V1 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/17039d55-6f50-45f5-869c-413ea8f2d4f6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).