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Bill	Insurance; insurers rehabilitation and liquidation; change certain provisions	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 37 of Title 33 of the O.C.G.A., relating to insurers rehabilitation and liquidation, so as to change certain provisions relating to insurers rehabilitation and liquidation; to change provisions related to reciprocal states and domiciliary liquidators; to provide for the Commissioner to transfer title under his or her control to a domiciliary receiver; to modify certain provisions relating to the rights of nonresident claimants in proceedings against domiciliary insurers; to change certain provisions relating to the rights of resident claimants in proceedings in other states against nondomiciliary insurers; to remove the use of reciprocal in superiority of order of distribution in liquidation proceedings; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	HB 883	Georgia HB 883 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Alex Atwood Buzz Brockway Chuck Efstration Darlene Taylor John Meadows Richard Smith	7	18	1	2016-02-02	2016-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/b8b83095-e5fd-464a-afc8-b3f7ad922952	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	c30559c135b1cac968beca31ad351dc6b346037b102bb54957020add72828ba0	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 883 (2015_16) — Insurance; insurers rehabilitation and liquidation; change certain provisions

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 37 of Title 33 of the O.C.G.A., relating to insurers rehabilitation and liquidation, so as to change certain provisions relating to insurers rehabilitation and liquidation; to change provisions related to reciprocal states and domiciliary liquidators; to provide for the Commissioner to transfer title under his or her control to a domiciliary receiver; to modify certain provisions relating to the rights of nonresident claimants in proceedings against domiciliary insurers; to change certain provisions relating to the rights of resident claimants in proceedings in other states against nondomiciliary insurers; to remove the use of reciprocal in superiority of order of distribution in liquidation proceedings; 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 883/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 37 2096/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 37 2115S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 37 2115S/hs (committee substitute) — source
5. Sen floor amend 1 AM 37 0323 (committee substitute) — source
6. Sen floor amend 2 AM 28 1483 (committee substitute) — source
7. Senate floor amend 2A (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 166–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Alex Atwood — primary (person)
• Buzz Brockway — primary (person)
• Chuck Efstration — primary (person)
• Darlene Taylor — primary (person)
• John Meadows — primary (person)
• Richard Smith — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-02 House Hopper
• 2016-02-03 House First Readers reading-1
• 2016-02-04 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2016-02-10 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-02-16 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2016-02-16 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2016-02-17 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2016-03-08 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-03-10 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2016-03-22 Senate Tabled
• 2016-03-24 Senate Taken from Table
• 2016-03-24 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2016-03-24 Senate Passed/Adopted As Amended passage
• 2016-03-24 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
• 2016-04-05 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2016-05-03 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2016-05-03 Act 607 executive-signature
• 2016-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b8b83095-e5fd-464a-afc8-b3f7ad922952. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).