republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2019-20/sb-18.md

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Bill	"Direct Primary Care Act"	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 7 of Title 33 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to kinds of insurance, limits of risks, and reinsurance, so as to provide definitions; to provide that direct primary care agreements are not insurance; to exempt such agreements from regulation as insurance; to provide for discontinuance of services under certain circumstances; to provide a short title; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2019_20	SB 18	Georgia SB 18 (2019_20)	bill		enacted	Ben Watson Burt Jones Chuck Hufstetler Dean Burke Ed Harbison Kay Kirkpatrick	5	17	1	2019-01-16	2019-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/bfbcca5e-b839-4ac2-b638-d8604495d34b	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	17c03a3d783fac9f661c1146850921e4760931b9a65d559d26a8714c1d6bb26b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 18 (2019_20) — "Direct Primary Care Act"

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 7 of Title 33 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to kinds of insurance, limits of risks, and reinsurance, so as to provide definitions; to provide that direct primary care agreements are not insurance; to exempt such agreements from regulation as insurance; to provide for discontinuance of services under certain circumstances; to provide a short title; 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 46 0017ER (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee Sub LC 33 7724S (committee substitute) — source
4. Committee Sub LC 33 7736S (committee substitute) — source
5. SB 18/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — 55–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ben Watson — primary (person)
• Burt Jones — primary (person)
• Chuck Hufstetler — primary (person)
• Dean Burke — primary (person)
• Ed Harbison — primary (person)
• Kay Kirkpatrick — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-01-16 Senate Hopper
• 2019-01-17 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2019-02-14 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-02-15 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2019-02-20 Senate Recommitted referral-committee
• 2019-02-21 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-02-26 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2019-02-26 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2019-02-27 House First Readers reading-1
• 2019-02-28 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2019-03-13 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-03-14 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2019-03-14 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2019-04-05 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2019-04-25 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2019-04-25 Act 47 executive-signature
• 2019-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/bfbcca5e-b839-4ac2-b638-d8604495d34b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).