republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2019-20/sb-28.md

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Bill	Insurance; imposing a copayment, coinsurance, or office visit charge in an amount greater than charges imposed for physician; prohibit	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 provisions regarding insurance generally, so as to prohibit certain insurers from imposing a copayment, coinsurance, or office visit charge in an amount greater than such charges imposed for physician or osteopath services to an insured for services rendered by a physical therapist, occupational therapist, or chiropractor; to provide for a definition; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2019_20	SB 28	Georgia SB 28 (2019_20)	bill		enacted	Chuck Hufstetler Ed Harbison John Albers Lester Jackson Sheikh Rahman	4	16	1	2019-01-17	2021-01-01	openstates	ocd-bill/7534818b-cc98-49b3-992d-acc6418207af	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	8484e97c840bb7bef66b3b3fa77b1167787a14ebc536c7bbbf3afbf5314d6293	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 28 (2019_20) — Insurance; imposing a copayment, coinsurance, or office visit charge in an amount greater than charges imposed for physician; prohibit

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 provisions regarding insurance generally, so as to prohibit certain insurers from imposing a copayment, coinsurance, or office visit charge in an amount greater than such charges imposed for physician or osteopath services to an insured for services rendered by a physical therapist, occupational therapist, or chiropractor; to provide for a definition; 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 41 1678 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 34 5652S (committee substitute) — source
4. SB28/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — 52–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Chuck Hufstetler — primary (person)
• Ed Harbison — primary (person)
• John Albers — primary (person)
• Lester Jackson — primary (person)
• Sheikh Rahman — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-01-17 Senate Hopper
• 2019-01-28 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2020-03-05 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-03-09 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2020-03-10 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2020-03-10 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2020-03-12 House First Readers reading-1
• 2020-03-13 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2020-06-18 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-06-23 House Postponed
• 2020-06-24 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2020-06-24 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2020-06-29 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2020-07-16 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2020-07-16 Act 472 executive-signature
• 2021-01-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7534818b-cc98-49b3-992d-acc6418207af. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).