republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/sb-137.md

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Bill	Property Insurance; expand the ownership restriction; value of the property covered against loss by fire	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 32 of Title 33 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to property insurance, so as to expand the ownership restriction as it relates to the application of the value of the property covered against loss by fire; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	SB 137	Georgia SB 137 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Bruce Thompson Burt Jones Ed Harbison Fran Millar Greg Kirk Jesse Stone John Kennedy Joshua McKoon Judson Hill Marty Harbin Michael 'Doc' Rhett Mike Dugan William Jackson William Ligon, Jr.	5	17	1	2015-02-19	2016-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/d51c4fbb-4346-44d5-bffc-e4e173cd59fb	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	5d3e7ad06264f2388260a45eb2d57eca66231ac7c767c35fd0e5103b7a170c78	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 137 (2015_16) — Property Insurance; expand the ownership restriction; value of the property covered against loss by fire

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 32 of Title 33 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to property insurance, so as to expand the ownership restriction as it relates to the application of the value of the property covered against loss by fire; 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 37 1928 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 37 1977S (committee substitute) — source
4. Committee sub LC 37 2079S (committee substitute) — source
5. SB 137/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — 48–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bruce Thompson — primary (person)
• Burt Jones — primary (person)
• Ed Harbison — primary (person)
• Fran Millar — primary (person)
• Greg Kirk — primary (person)
• Jesse Stone — primary (person)
• John Kennedy — primary (person)
• Joshua McKoon — primary (person)
• Judson Hill — primary (person)
• Marty Harbin — primary (person)
• Michael 'Doc' Rhett — primary (person)
• Mike Dugan — primary (person)
• William Jackson — primary (person)
• William Ligon, Jr. — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-19 Senate Hopper
• 2015-02-20 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2015-03-09 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-03-11 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2016-01-11 Senate Recommitted referral-committee
• 2016-01-26 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-01-27 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2016-01-27 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2016-01-28 House First Readers reading-1
• 2016-02-01 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2016-03-10 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-03-11 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2016-03-11 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2016-03-29 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2016-04-26 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2016-04-26 Act 365 executive-signature
• 2016-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d51c4fbb-4346-44d5-bffc-e4e173cd59fb. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).