republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2013-14/hb-198.md

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Bill	Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; licensing of health insurance navigators; provide	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 33 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to insurance, so as to provide for licensing of health insurance navigators under the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; to provide for definitions; to provide for the powers and duties of the Commissioner of Insurance with respect to the foregoing; to provide for related matters; to provide for applicability; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2013_14	HB 198	Georgia HB 198 (2013_14)	bill		enacted	Howard Maxwell Jason Shaw John Meadows Pat Gardner Richard Smith Stacey Abrams	6	16	1	2013-02-04	2013-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/51fae5ac-eee5-44f0-b142-87fd5b6b5584	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	2cf565c0144390487927c848ff46674ac6e0d6dc6d5e321b5c714a55b19b79b3	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 198 (2013_14) — Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; licensing of health insurance navigators; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 33 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to insurance, so as to provide for licensing of health insurance navigators under the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; to provide for definitions; to provide for the powers and duties of the Commissioner of Insurance with respect to the foregoing; to provide for related matters; to provide for applicability; 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 198/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 37 1516/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 37 1528S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 37 1528S/hs (committee substitute) — source
5. Sen ctee sub LC 37 1596S (committee substitute) — source
6. Sen floor amend 1 AM 37 0208 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 154–16 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Howard Maxwell — primary (person)
• Jason Shaw — primary (person)
• John Meadows — primary (person)
• Pat Gardner — primary (person)
• Richard Smith — primary (person)
• Stacey Abrams — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-02-04 House Hopper
• 2013-02-05 House First Readers reading-1
• 2013-02-06 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2013-02-11 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-02-13 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2013-02-13 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2013-02-14 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2013-03-01 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-03-04 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2013-03-11 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2013-03-11 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2013-03-14 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
• 2013-04-01 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2013-05-06 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2013-05-06 Act 253 executive-signature
• 2013-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/51fae5ac-eee5-44f0-b142-87fd5b6b5584. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).