republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2013-14/sb-98.md

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Bill	"Federal Abortion Mandate Opt-out Act"	A BILL to be entitled an Act to provide a short title; to amend Article 1 of Chapter 24 of Title 33 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to insurance generally, so as to provide a definition; to opt out of funding certain abortions through certain qualified health plans; to provide for certain exceptions; to provide for a right of intervention in certain lawsuits; to provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2013_14	SB 98	Georgia SB 98 (2013_14)	bill		enacted	Barry Loudermilk Bill Heath Brandon Beach Bruce Thompson Butch Miller Cecil Staton Earl Carter Fran Millar Jeff Mullis Judson Hill Ross Tolleson Steve Gooch William Ligon, Jr.	7	17	1	2013-02-01	2014-04-21	openstates	ocd-bill/57289979-c0d1-4b26-8016-d3ed60b2293e	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	c7e6faa529c48bd15627c378154eb5dfe25284a7c35d975044968d3e88df0557	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 98 (2013_14) — "Federal Abortion Mandate Opt-out Act"

A BILL to be entitled an Act to provide a short title; to amend Article 1 of Chapter 24 of Title 33 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to insurance generally, so as to provide a definition; to opt out of funding certain abortions through certain qualified health plans; to provide for certain exceptions; to provide for a right of intervention in certain lawsuits; to provide 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. As introduced LC 28 6374 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 28 7116S (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 25 6394S/hss (committee substitute) — source
5. LC 25 6403S/hrcs (committee substitute) — source
6. SB 98/AP* (committee substitute) — source
7. SB 98/HRCSFA (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• MOTION TO ENGROSS — 35–14 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Barry Loudermilk — primary (person)
• Bill Heath — primary (person)
• Brandon Beach — primary (person)
• Bruce Thompson — primary (person)
• Butch Miller — primary (person)
• Cecil Staton — primary (person)
• Earl Carter — primary (person)
• Fran Millar — primary (person)
• Jeff Mullis — primary (person)
• Judson Hill — primary (person)
• Ross Tolleson — primary (person)
• Steve Gooch — primary (person)
• William Ligon, Jr. — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-02-01 Senate Hopper
• 2013-02-04 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2014-02-21 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2014-02-24 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 By Substitute passage
• 2014-03-04 House First Readers reading-1
• 2014-03-05 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2014-03-11 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2014-03-18 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2014-03-18 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2014-03-18 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2014-03-25 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2014-04-21 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2014-04-21 Act 547 executive-signature
• 2014-04-21 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/57289979-c0d1-4b26-8016-d3ed60b2293e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).