---
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).