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| Bill | Insurance; insurer's medium of payment of policy or contractual obligations; expand | A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 24 of Title 33 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general insurance provisions, so as to expand an insurer's medium of payment of policy or contractual obligations from the sole medium of legal tender to include any other method of payment approved by the Commissioner; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes. | us/states/ga | Georgia General Assembly | 2017_18 | HB 174 | Georgia HB 174 (2017_18) |
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0 | 14 | 1 | 2017-01-30 | 2017-05-09 | openstates | ocd-bill/ce8ff692-7f93-4d38-b3bd-87819344a7a1 | http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl | 6f7a3aec38778a811ebc63e9d16cfb73af3a9e279d9855e088c0ebd7abc81c9e | 2026-07-01 | https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump | 2026-07-06 | reported |
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Georgia HB 174 (2017_18) — Insurance; insurer's medium of payment of policy or contractual obligations; expand
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 24 of Title 33 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general insurance provisions, so as to expand an insurer's medium of payment of policy or contractual obligations from the sole medium of legal tender to include any other method of payment approved by 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.
Votes
- PASSAGE — 162–2 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
- Bruce Williamson — primary (person)
- Buzz Brockway — primary (person)
- Eddie Lumsden — primary (person)
- Richard Smith — primary (person)
- Shaw Blackmon — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2017-01-30 House Hopper
- 2017-01-31 House First Readers
reading-1 - 2017-02-01 House Second Readers
reading-2 - 2017-02-15 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute
committee-passage-favorable - 2017-02-21 House Third Readers
reading-3 - 2017-02-21 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute
passage - 2017-02-22 Senate Read and Referred
referral-committee - 2017-03-10 Senate Committee Favorably Reported
committee-passage-favorable - 2017-03-13 Senate Read Second Time
reading-2 - 2017-03-14 Senate Third Read
reading-3 - 2017-03-14 Senate Passed/Adopted
passage - 2017-04-03 House Sent to Governor
executive-receipt - 2017-05-09 House Date Signed by Governor
executive-signature - 2017-05-09 Veto V3
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ce8ff692-7f93-4d38-b3bd-87819344a7a1. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).