republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/hb-429.md

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Bill	Insurance; no health benefit plan shall restrict coverage for prescribed treatment based upon insured's diagnosis with a terminal condition; provide	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 24 of Title 33 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to insurance generally, so as to provide that no health benefit plan shall restrict coverage for prescribed treatment based upon the insured's diagnosis with a terminal condition; to provide for definitions; to provide for penalties; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	HB 429	Georgia HB 429 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Carl Rogers Jason Shaw Joe Wilkinson Matt Dollar Ron Stephens Sam Teasley	5	16	1	2015-02-20	2015-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/f843d3ee-2c48-423b-a337-454a87b6c28f	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	43a3c3e2fe39f9ffed6a287648b4c31465f0475f54c3a8de95d56d39d7550694	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 429 (2015_16) — Insurance; no health benefit plan shall restrict coverage for prescribed treatment based upon insured's diagnosis with a terminal condition; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 24 of Title 33 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to insurance generally, so as to provide that no health benefit plan shall restrict coverage for prescribed treatment based upon the insured's diagnosis with a terminal condition; to provide for definitions; to provide for penalties; 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. Floor Amendment AM 25 1344 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB 429/AP* (committee substitute) — source
3. HB 429/FA (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 37 1908ER/a (committee substitute) — source
5. Sen ctee sub LC 37 2023S (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• AM 25 1344 — 105–61 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Carl Rogers — primary (person)
• Jason Shaw — primary (person)
• Joe Wilkinson — primary (person)
• Matt Dollar — primary (person)
• Ron Stephens — primary (person)
• Sam Teasley — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-20 House Hopper
• 2015-02-23 House First Readers reading-1
• 2015-02-24 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2015-03-11 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-03-13 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2015-03-13 House Passed/Adopted As Amended passage
• 2015-03-18 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2015-03-27 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-03-27 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2015-03-31 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2015-03-31 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2015-04-02 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
• 2015-04-09 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2015-04-29 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2015-04-29 Act 31 executive-signature
• 2015-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f843d3ee-2c48-423b-a337-454a87b6c28f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).