---
type: "Bill"
title: "Identity Theft; consumer credit reporting agencies charging a fee for placing/removing a security freeze; prohibit"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 34 of Chapter 1 of Title 10 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to identity theft, so as to prohibit consumer credit reporting agencies from charging a fee for placing or removing a security freeze on a consumer's account; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2017_18"
identifier: "SB 376"
citation: "Georgia SB 376 (2017_18)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bill Heath", "Bruce Thompson", "David Shafer", "Fran Millar", "Frank Ginn", "Greg Kirk", "John Albers", "Kay Kirkpatrick", "Michael Williams"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 16
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2018-01-31"
last_action: "2018-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2c7d5f72-eb02-408f-bbf5-4124d5233695"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "4cb118861dbf09f136b31a9ce18da8b977ecfa8de2add6f3be86c45c74f41ee0"
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 376 (2017_18) — Identity Theft; consumer credit reporting agencies charging a fee for placing/removing a security freeze; prohibit

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 34 of Chapter 1 of Title 10 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to identity theft, so as to prohibit consumer credit reporting agencies from charging a fee for placing or removing a security freeze on a consumer's account; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.


## Votes

- PASSAGE — **51–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bill Heath — primary (person)
- Bruce Thompson — primary (person)
- David Shafer — primary (person)
- Fran Millar — primary (person)
- Frank Ginn — primary (person)
- Greg Kirk — primary (person)
- John Albers — primary (person)
- Kay Kirkpatrick — primary (person)
- Michael Williams — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-31** Senate Hopper
- **2018-02-01** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-21** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-22** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2018-02-26** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2018-02-26** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2018-02-28** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2018-03-01** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2018-03-12** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-29** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2018-03-29** House Passed/Adopted As Amended `passage`
- **2018-03-29** Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
- **2018-04-05** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2018-05-03** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-03** Act 356 `executive-signature`
- **2018-07-01** Effective Date

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2c7d5f72-eb02-408f-bbf5-4124d5233695`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).