republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/hb-552.md

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Bill	Insurance; provide changes to the captive insurance company provisions; add definitions	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 33 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to insurance, so as to provide for changes to the captive insurance company provisions; to add certain definitions; to change prerequisites to transacting insurance; to amend provisions relating to directors; to revise the required amounts of capital or surplus for each captive insurance company; to provide for application of certain provisions to the examination of a captive insurance company and add confidentiality of certain information and documents provided to the Commissioner; to change the taxation requirements; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	HB 552	Georgia HB 552 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Bruce Williamson Chuck Efstration Jason Shaw Rich Golick Richard Smith	5	16	1	2015-03-04	2015-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/b1e730a3-c0d7-4863-935d-6a7f7dd2dddd	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	1a0d84255bb0e7ea45ce9f9f3a36a456c417158111904bb0c66f3d899974a599	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 552 (2015_16) — Insurance; provide changes to the captive insurance company provisions; add definitions

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 33 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to insurance, so as to provide for changes to the captive insurance company provisions; to add certain definitions; to change prerequisites to transacting insurance; to amend provisions relating to directors; to revise the required amounts of capital or surplus for each captive insurance company; to provide for application of certain provisions to the examination of a captive insurance company and add confidentiality of certain information and documents provided to the Commissioner; to change the taxation requirements; 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 552/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 37 1957ER/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 37 1971ERS/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 37 1971ERS/hs (committee substitute) — source
5. Sen ctee sub LC 37 2018ERS (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 171–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bruce Williamson — primary (person)
• Chuck Efstration — primary (person)
• Jason Shaw — primary (person)
• Rich Golick — primary (person)
• Richard Smith — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-03-04 House Hopper
• 2015-03-04 House First Readers reading-1
• 2015-03-05 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2015-03-11 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-03-13 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2015-03-13 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2015-03-18 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2015-03-26 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-03-26 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
• 2015-05-05 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2015-05-05 Act 67 executive-signature
• 2015-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b1e730a3-c0d7-4863-935d-6a7f7dd2dddd. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).