republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2021-22/hb-1324.md

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Bill	Health and insurance; clarify that the prudent layperson standard is not affected by the diagnoses given	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 11 of Title 31 and Title 33 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to emergency medical services and insurance, respectively, so as to clarify that the prudent layperson standard is not affected by the diagnoses given; to provide for unfair claims settlement practices; to provide for legislative findings; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2021_22	HB 1324	Georgia HB 1324 (2021_22)	bill		enacted	Beth Camp Darlene Taylor Devan Seabaugh Eddie Lumsden Lee Hawkins Mark Newton	4	15	1	2022-02-10	2022-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/80cdfe3b-bf47-4d63-985f-b49d6d971bdd	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	b399c79cc577eda8d8561ca7ef31503770390c8462d23a42ed171f49856d51fe	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 1324 (2021_22) — Health and insurance; clarify that the prudent layperson standard is not affected by the diagnoses given

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 11 of Title 31 and Title 33 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to emergency medical services and insurance, respectively, so as to clarify that the prudent layperson standard is not affected by the diagnoses given; to provide for unfair claims settlement practices; to provide for legislative findings; 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. HB 1324/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 33 9001/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 52 0097S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 52 0097S/hs (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 165–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Beth Camp — primary (person)
• Darlene Taylor — primary (person)
• Devan Seabaugh — primary (person)
• Eddie Lumsden — primary (person)
• Lee Hawkins — primary (person)
• Mark Newton — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-02-10 House Hopper
• 2022-02-11 House First Readers reading-1
• 2022-02-14 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2022-02-17 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-03-03 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2022-03-03 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2022-03-04 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2022-03-17 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-03-18 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2022-04-01 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2022-04-01 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2022-04-06 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2022-05-09 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2022-05-09 Act 833 executive-signature
• 2022-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/80cdfe3b-bf47-4d63-985f-b49d6d971bdd. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).