republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/sb-302.md

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Bill	Insurance; require health carriers to maintain accurate provider directories	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 33 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to insurance, so as to require health carriers to maintain accurate provider directories; to provide for definitions; to provide for electronic and printed provider directories; to require certain information in provider directories; to grant enforcement authority to the Commissioner; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	SB 302	Georgia SB 302 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Ben Watson Dean Burke Elena Parent P. K. Martin IV Renee Unterman	6	16	1	2016-01-27	2016-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/fbce1ff5-1ce9-4921-85fe-9a3c161a180b	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	30917c6a424a77433dcddd42d03e0ef6d21beb840366c722007590b4ad3c6ced	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 302 (2015_16) — Insurance; require health carriers to maintain accurate provider directories

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 33 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to insurance, so as to require health carriers to maintain accurate provider directories; to provide for definitions; to provide for electronic and printed provider directories; to require certain information in provider directories; to grant enforcement authority to the Commissioner; 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 33 6286 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 33 6520S (committee substitute) — source
4. Floor Amend 1 AM 28 1486 (committee substitute) — source
5. LC 37 2196S/hss (committee substitute) — source
6. SB 302/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — 50–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ben Watson — primary (person)
• Dean Burke — primary (person)
• Elena Parent — primary (person)
• P. K. Martin IV — primary (person)
• Renee Unterman — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-01-27 Senate Hopper
• 2016-01-28 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2016-02-19 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-02-22 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2016-02-25 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2016-02-25 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2016-02-26 House First Readers reading-1
• 2016-02-29 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2016-03-10 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-03-14 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2016-03-14 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2016-03-24 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2016-03-31 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2016-04-26 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2016-04-26 Act 341 executive-signature
• 2016-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/fbce1ff5-1ce9-4921-85fe-9a3c161a180b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).