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type: "Bill"
title: "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; licensing of health insurance navigators; provide"
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2013_14"
identifier: "HB 198"
citation: "Georgia HB 198 (2013_14)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Howard Maxwell", "Jason Shaw", "John Meadows", "Pat Gardner", "Richard Smith", "Stacey Abrams"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 16
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2013-02-04"
last_action: "2013-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/51fae5ac-eee5-44f0-b142-87fd5b6b5584"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "2cf565c0144390487927c848ff46674ac6e0d6dc6d5e321b5c714a55b19b79b3"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["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](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/134596.pdf)
2. **LC 37 1516/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/129678.pdf)
3. **LC 37 1528S/hcs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/130831.pdf)
4. **LC 37 1528S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/130392.pdf)
5. **Sen ctee sub LC 37 1596S** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/133088.pdf)
6. **Sen floor amend 1 AM 37 0208** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/134070.pdf)
## 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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/51fae5ac-eee5-44f0-b142-87fd5b6b5584`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).