republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/sb-290.md

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Bill	Insurance; clarify those individuals not required to be licensed as insurance agent	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 23 of Title 33 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to licensing, so as to clarify those individuals not required to be licensed as an insurance agent; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	SB 290	Georgia SB 290 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Charlie Bethel	4	15	1	2016-01-25	2016-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/0ab94bc2-ac7b-4a7b-b128-ede208379b4d	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	83974f0a02b0f3f58b04d2272aa77002f7240aa59094918beb2aee599751b24d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 290 (2015_16) — Insurance; clarify those individuals not required to be licensed as insurance agent

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 23 of Title 33 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to licensing, so as to clarify those individuals not required to be licensed as an insurance agent; 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. As introduced LC 37 2078 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 37 2085S (committee substitute) — source
4. SB 290/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — 51–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Charlie Bethel — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-01-25 Senate Hopper
• 2016-01-26 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2016-02-08 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-02-09 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2016-02-16 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2016-02-16 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2016-02-17 House First Readers reading-1
• 2016-02-18 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2016-03-10 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-03-10 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2016-03-10 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 374 executive-signature
• 2016-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0ab94bc2-ac7b-4a7b-b128-ede208379b4d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).