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type: "Bill"
title: "Columbia County; health insurance program; revise the time for vesting for certain officials"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act to provide that certain officials of Columbia County who have served at least 15 years in office may, upon leaving office, continue to participate in the county health insurance program by paying the total cost of such participation, approved May 17, 2004 (Ga. L. 2004, p. 4471), as amended, so as to revise the time for vesting in such program; to provide for related matters; to provide for intent; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2013_14"
identifier: "HB 578"
citation: "Georgia HB 578 (2013_14)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barbara Sims", "Barry Fleming", "Ben Harbin", "Tom McCall"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 13
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2013-03-11"
last_action: "2013-05-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8e4c2ec1-ee29-4155-99a5-c7da392c9214"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "26854d7033aeb0bd0c13ca312260f0b9aabfdd49ef67489fd6b10c222f1a884a"
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 578 (2013_14) — Columbia County; health insurance program; revise the time for vesting for certain officials
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act to provide that certain officials of Columbia County who have served at least 15 years in office may, upon leaving office, continue to participate in the county health insurance program by paying the total cost of such participation, approved May 17, 2004 (Ga. L. 2004, p. 4471), as amended, so as to revise the time for vesting in such program; to provide for related matters; to provide for intent; 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 578/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/135571.pdf)
2. **LC 28 6574/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/134125.pdf)
## Votes
- Local Calendar — **151–1** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Barbara Sims — primary (person)
- Barry Fleming — primary (person)
- Ben Harbin — primary (person)
- Tom McCall — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2013-03-11** House Hopper
- **2013-03-12** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2013-03-13** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2013-03-14** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2013-03-14** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2013-03-14** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2013-03-20** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2013-03-22** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2013-03-22** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2013-04-02** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2013-05-06** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2013-05-06** Act 142 `executive-signature`
- **2013-05-06** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8e4c2ec1-ee29-4155-99a5-c7da392c9214`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).