republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2023-24/sb-199.md

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Bill	State's Employee Benefit Plan Council; council to establish health savings accounts; require	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 3 of Chapter 18 of Title 45 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the state's Employee Benefit Plan Council, so as to require such council to establish health savings accounts and to continually provide for education or salary reductions for such accounts; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2023_24	SB 199	Georgia SB 199 (2023_24)	bill		enacted	Blake Tillery Chuck Hufstetler Ed Harbison Ed Setzler Elena Parent Gloria Butler Harold Jones II Jason Anavitarte Jason Esteves Josh McLaurin Kay Kirkpatrick Kim Jackson Larry Walker, III Nabilah Islam Parkes Nikki Merritt Russ Goodman Shawn Still Shelly Echols Sonya Halpern Steve Gooch	6	18	3	2023-02-15	2023-05-05	openstates	ocd-bill/31cbe9ff-af19-4878-8a2e-84f866ab2cdc	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	2e6d2a1883078e5d060fc9e3d56971044338d973b757285ad6dca109956e9e39	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 199 (2023_24) — State's Employee Benefit Plan Council; council to establish health savings accounts; require

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 3 of Chapter 18 of Title 45 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the state's Employee Benefit Plan Council, so as to require such council to establish health savings accounts and to continually provide for education or salary reductions for such accounts; 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 36 5483 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Floor amend 1 (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 54 0248S/hss (committee substitute) — source
5. LC 54 0251S/hrcs (committee substitute) — source
6. SB 199/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• House Vote #290 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 164–1 (pass) · lower
• Senate Vote #292 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 47–0 (pass) · upper
• Senate Vote #160 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 55–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Blake Tillery — primary (person)
• Chuck Hufstetler — primary (person)
• Ed Harbison — primary (person)
• Ed Setzler — primary (person)
• Elena Parent — primary (person)
• Gloria Butler — primary (person)
• Harold Jones II — primary (person)
• Jason Anavitarte — primary (person)
• Jason Esteves — primary (person)
• Josh McLaurin — primary (person)
• Kay Kirkpatrick — primary (person)
• Kim Jackson — primary (person)
• Larry Walker, III — primary (person)
• Nabilah Islam Parkes — primary (person)
• Nikki Merritt — primary (person)
• Russ Goodman — primary (person)
• Shawn Still — primary (person)
• Shelly Echols — primary (person)
• Sonya Halpern — primary (person)
• Steve Gooch — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-15 Senate Hopper introduction
• 2023-02-16 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2023-02-27 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-02-28 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2023-03-02 Senate Tabled
• 2023-03-06 Senate Taken from Table
• 2023-03-06 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2023-03-06 Senate Passed/Adopted As Amended passage
• 2023-03-07 House First Readers reading-1
• 2023-03-08 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2023-03-16 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-03-23 House Withdrawn, Recommitted referral-committee, withdrawal
• 2023-03-23 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2023-03-23 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2023-03-23 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2023-04-05 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2023-05-05 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2023-05-05 Veto V13 executive-veto

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/31cbe9ff-af19-4878-8a2e-84f866ab2cdc. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).