republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2013-14/sb-170.md

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Bill	Forgery and Fraudulent Practices; identity fraud; add medical identity fraud	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 9 of Title 16 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to forgery and fraudulent practices, so as to add medical identity fraud to the provisions relating to identity fraud; to provide for definitions; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2013_14	SB 170	Georgia SB 170 (2013_14)	bill		enacted	Judson Hill	4	16	1	2013-02-14	2013-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/527e1177-d9f6-42e8-b337-8c493659c8cc	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	7f345aa941752d0dce8947114fd413f3d2aa298f7fcabac11a54da9032db935e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 170 (2013_14) — Forgery and Fraudulent Practices; identity fraud; add medical identity fraud

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 9 of Title 16 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to forgery and fraudulent practices, so as to add medical identity fraud to the provisions relating to identity fraud; to provide for definitions; 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 6363 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 29 5635S/hss (committee substitute) — source
4. SB 170/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 52–1 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Judson Hill — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-02-14 Senate Hopper
• 2013-02-19 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2013-03-04 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-03-05 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2013-03-07 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2013-03-07 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2013-03-11 House First Readers reading-1
• 2013-03-12 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2013-03-14 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-03-21 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2013-03-21 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2013-03-28 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2013-04-09 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2013-05-07 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2013-05-07 Act 334 executive-signature
• 2013-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/527e1177-d9f6-42e8-b337-8c493659c8cc. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).