republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/sb-347.md

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Bill	'Georgia Captive Insurance Company Act'; provide extensive changes; provisions	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 extensive changes to the captive insurance company provisions of this title; to provide for definitions for types of captive insurance companies; to provide for creation and regulation of different types of captive insurance companies; to provide for certain exemptions; to change certain requirements; to provide for regulation by the Commissioner; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	SB 347	Georgia SB 347 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Charlie Bethel	5	16	1	2016-02-08	2016-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/8fd1b5d5-2937-4ef6-a6aa-ef7a078b84ba	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	04f808b0b525a5c22837b67d8c13a42b9347b5d829f235fb701949c548dc6571	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 347 (2015_16) — 'Georgia Captive Insurance Company Act'; provide extensive changes; provisions

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 extensive changes to the captive insurance company provisions of this title; to provide for definitions for types of captive insurance companies; to provide for creation and regulation of different types of captive insurance companies; to provide for certain exemptions; to change certain requirements; to provide for regulation by the Commissioner; 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 2118ER (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 37 2146ERS (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 37 2185ERS/hss (committee substitute) — source
5. SB 347/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — 46–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Charlie Bethel — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-08 Senate Hopper
• 2016-02-09 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
• 2016-02-26 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2016-02-26 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2016-02-29 House First Readers reading-1
• 2016-03-02 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2016-03-10 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-03-11 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2016-03-11 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2016-03-24 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2016-03-31 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2016-05-03 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2016-05-03 Act 611 executive-signature
• 2016-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8fd1b5d5-2937-4ef6-a6aa-ef7a078b84ba. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).