republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2013-14/hb-990.md

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Bill	Social services; expansion of Medicaid eligibility through increase in income threshold without prior legislative approval; prohibit	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 7 of Chapter 4 of Title 49 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to medical assistance generally, so as to prohibit the expansion of Medicaid eligibility through an increase in the income threshold without prior legislative approval; to provide for legislative findings; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2013_14	HB 990	Georgia HB 990 (2013_14)	bill		enacted	Chad Nimmer David Ralston Jan Jones Jason Spencer Larry O`Neal Matt Ramsey	5	17	1	2014-02-11	2014-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/3f817011-0c45-4178-924c-3ba32e88dd17	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	c9e9b3a5a19146efcad054f4907738326d483588f4991680d798916760441cb4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 990 (2013_14) — Social services; expansion of Medicaid eligibility through increase in income threshold without prior legislative approval; prohibit

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 7 of Chapter 4 of Title 49 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to medical assistance generally, so as to prohibit the expansion of Medicaid eligibility through an increase in the income threshold without prior legislative approval; to provide for legislative findings; 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. HB 990/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 33 5491/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 33 5569S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 33 5569S/hs (committee substitute) — source
5. Sen ctee sub LC 37 1783S (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 118–57 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Chad Nimmer — primary (person)
• David Ralston — primary (person)
• Jan Jones — primary (person)
• Jason Spencer — primary (person)
• Larry O`Neal — primary (person)
• Matt Ramsey — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2014-02-11 House Hopper
• 2014-02-17 House First Readers reading-1
• 2014-02-18 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2014-02-24 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2014-03-03 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2014-03-03 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2014-03-04 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2014-03-13 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2014-03-13 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2014-03-18 Senate Tabled
• 2014-03-18 Senate Taken from Table
• 2014-03-18 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2014-03-18 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2014-03-26 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2014-04-15 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2014-04-15 Act 534 executive-signature
• 2014-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3f817011-0c45-4178-924c-3ba32e88dd17. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).