republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2025-26/sb-109.md

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Bill	Life Insurance; a policy of group life insurance from excluding or restricting liability for certain deaths occurring while an individual is an active duty service member; prohibit	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 25 of Title 33 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to life insurance, so as to prohibit a policy of group life insurance from excluding or restricting liability for certain deaths occurring while an individual is an active duty service member; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2025_26	SB 109	Georgia SB 109 (2025_26)	bill	INSURANCE	enacted	Ben Watson Brandon Beach Carden Summers Chuck Payne David Lucas Donzella James Ed Harbison Elena Parent Freddie Powell Sims Gail Davenport Harold Jones II John Albers Josh McLaurin Kay Kirkpatrick Kenya Wicks Kim Jackson Larry Walker, III Michael 'Doc' Rhett Nabilah Parkes Nan Orrock Nikki Merritt RaShaun Kemp Randal Mangham Randy Robertson Russ Goodman Sally Harrell Sam Watson Sheikh Rahman Sonya Halpern Tonya Anderson	4	15	2	2025-02-05	2025-06-01	openstates	ocd-bill/6a38eb6f-4ee1-4309-acf9-1e56d8317a56	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	803aa45d9825bc274ac68910d61e351b4c0b98d0fd78d943eeba8263834bc40a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 109 (2025_26) — Life Insurance; a policy of group life insurance from excluding or restricting liability for certain deaths occurring while an individual is an active duty service member; prohibit

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 25 of Title 33 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to life insurance, so as to prohibit a policy of group life insurance from excluding or restricting liability for certain deaths occurring while an individual is an active duty service member; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; 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 Passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
2. As introduced LC 52 0704 (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 46 1164S (committee substitute) — source
4. SB 109/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• House Vote #285 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 172–0 (pass) · lower
• Senate Vote #179 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 53–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ben Watson — primary (person)
• Brandon Beach — primary (person)
• Carden Summers — primary (person)
• Chuck Payne — primary (person)
• David Lucas — primary (person)
• Donzella James — primary (person)
• Ed Harbison — primary (person)
• Elena Parent — primary (person)
• Freddie Powell Sims — primary (person)
• Gail Davenport — primary (person)
• Harold Jones II — primary (person)
• John Albers — primary (person)
• Josh McLaurin — primary (person)
• Kay Kirkpatrick — primary (person)
• Kenya Wicks — primary (person)
• Kim Jackson — primary (person)
• Larry Walker, III — primary (person)
• Michael 'Doc' Rhett — primary (person)
• Nabilah Parkes — primary (person)
• Nan Orrock — primary (person)
• Nikki Merritt — primary (person)
• RaShaun Kemp — primary (person)
• Randal Mangham — primary (person)
• Randy Robertson — primary (person)
• Russ Goodman — primary (person)
• Sally Harrell — primary (person)
• Sam Watson — primary (person)
• Sheikh Rahman — primary (person)
• Sonya Halpern — primary (person)
• Tonya Anderson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-05 Senate Hopper introduction
• 2025-02-06 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2025-02-26 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-02-27 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2025-03-06 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2025-03-06 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2025-03-10 House First Readers reading-1
• 2025-03-11 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2025-03-13 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-18 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2025-03-18 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2025-04-07 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-05-09 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2025-05-09 Act 75 executive-signature
• 2025-06-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6a38eb6f-4ee1-4309-acf9-1e56d8317a56. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).