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type: "Bill"
title: "Insurance; provide conversion and enhanced conversion rights and coverage; sunset requirements"
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 sunset requirements to provide conversion and enhanced conversion rights and coverage; to add new provisions allowing for the discontinuance of conversion and enhanced conversion coverage; to sunset certain provisions related to the assignment system; to add new provisions allowing for the discontinuance of assignment system benefit plans; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2013_14"
identifier: "HB 389"
citation: "Georgia HB 389 (2013_14)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alex Atwood", "Carl Rogers", "Darlene Taylor", "Jason Shaw", "John Meadows", "Richard Smith"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2013-02-19"
last_action: "2013-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/79e4f19b-17c6-4fd7-9d90-51ac1da41a83"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "4df1f4455e7d68852eb6a268e804d782214cce980330a7393323af149a5efedf"
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 389 (2013_14) — Insurance; provide conversion and enhanced conversion rights and coverage; sunset requirements
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 33 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to insurance, so as to sunset requirements to provide conversion and enhanced conversion rights and coverage; to add new provisions allowing for the discontinuance of conversion and enhanced conversion coverage; to sunset certain provisions related to the assignment system; to add new provisions allowing for the discontinuance of assignment system benefit plans; 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 389/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/136355.pdf)
2. **LC 37 1541/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/131243.pdf)
## Votes
- PASSAGE — **150–16** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Alex Atwood — primary (person)
- Carl Rogers — primary (person)
- Darlene Taylor — primary (person)
- Jason Shaw — primary (person)
- John Meadows — primary (person)
- Richard Smith — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2013-02-19** House Hopper
- **2013-02-20** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2013-02-21** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2013-02-28** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2013-03-05** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2013-03-05** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2013-03-07** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2013-03-20** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2013-03-21** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2013-03-25** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2013-03-25** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2013-04-01** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2013-05-07** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2013-05-07** Act 278 `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/79e4f19b-17c6-4fd7-9d90-51ac1da41a83`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).