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| Bill | 'Hearing Aid Coverage for Children Act' | A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 24 of Title 33 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to insurance generally, so as to provide for a short title and findings; to require health plans to provide coverage for hearing aids for certain individuals; to provide for the frequency of replacing hearing aids; to provide for coverage of services and supplies; to provide options for higher priced devices; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes. | us/states/ga | Georgia General Assembly | 2017_18 | SB 206 | Georgia SB 206 (2017_18) |
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0 | 16 | 1 | 2017-02-17 | 2017-07-01 | openstates | ocd-bill/7de18b8d-aefc-4110-94bb-db1a6171782c | http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl | 9065499f6fe2ccae7681a96e6377c2899accae343b0bad627391a8020267ed03 | 2026-07-01 | https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump | 2026-07-06 | reported |
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Georgia SB 206 (2017_18) — 'Hearing Aid Coverage for Children Act'
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 24 of Title 33 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to insurance generally, so as to provide for a short title and findings; to require health plans to provide coverage for hearing aids for certain individuals; to provide for the frequency of replacing hearing aids; to provide for coverage of services and supplies; to provide options for higher priced devices; 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 — 47–6 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
- Ben Watson — primary (person)
- Blake Tillery — primary (person)
- Brandon Beach — primary (person)
- Butch Miller — primary (person)
- Chuck Payne — primary (person)
- Chuck Hufstetler — primary (person)
- Ed Harbison — primary (person)
- Elena Parent — primary (person)
- Ellis Black — primary (person)
- Fran Millar — primary (person)
- Frank Ginn — primary (person)
- Greg Kirk — primary (person)
- Hunter Hill — primary (person)
- Jeff Mullis — primary (person)
- Jesse Stone — primary (person)
- John Albers — primary (person)
- Lawrence Walker III — primary (person)
- Lee Anderson — primary (person)
- Lindsey Tippins — primary (person)
- Matt Brass — primary (person)
- Nan Orrock — primary (person)
- P. K. Martin IV — primary (person)
- Steve Henson — primary (person)
- Valencia Seay — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2017-02-17 Senate Hopper
- 2017-02-21 Senate Read and Referred
referral-committee - 2017-02-28 Senate Committee Favorably Reported
committee-passage-favorable - 2017-03-01 Senate Read Second Time
reading-2 - 2017-03-03 Senate Third Read
reading-3 - 2017-03-03 Senate Passed/Adopted
passage - 2017-03-06 House First Readers
reading-1 - 2017-03-09 House Second Readers
reading-2 - 2017-03-15 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute
committee-passage-favorable - 2017-03-20 House Third Readers
reading-3 - 2017-03-20 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute
passage - 2017-03-30 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
- 2017-04-07 Senate Sent to Governor
executive-receipt - 2017-05-08 Senate Date Signed by Governor
executive-signature - 2017-05-08 Act 174
executive-signature - 2017-07-01 Effective Date
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7de18b8d-aefc-4110-94bb-db1a6171782c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).