republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2013-14/hb-645.md

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Bill	Insurance; electronic transmissions of notices and documents from an insurers to a party to an insurance transaction; provisions	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 24 of Title 33 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions relating to insurance, so as to define certain terms; to provide for the electronic transmission of notices and documents from an insurer to a party to an insurance transaction; to provide for consent; to provide for applicability; to provide for verification and acknowledgment of receipt; to provide for notarized, acknowledged, verified documents and documents made under oath; to provide for oral statements; to provide for related maters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2013_14	HB 645	Georgia HB 645 (2013_14)	bill		enacted	Carl Rogers Darlene Taylor Jason Shaw Matt Dollar Quincy Murphy Rich Golick	4	17	1	2013-03-20	2014-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/495720d9-e579-4da3-8719-b647e5004897	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	18350cea6f8451a3408aae877fbca300f2dedff69c47f8c23524f35afebd0d5f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 645 (2013_14) — Insurance; electronic transmissions of notices and documents from an insurers to a party to an insurance transaction; provisions

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 24 of Title 33 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions relating to insurance, so as to define certain terms; to provide for the electronic transmission of notices and documents from an insurer to a party to an insurance transaction; to provide for consent; to provide for applicability; to provide for verification and acknowledgment of receipt; to provide for notarized, acknowledged, verified documents and documents made under oath; to provide for oral statements; to provide for related maters; 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 645/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 21 2219/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 37 1707S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 37 1707S/hs (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 164–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Carl Rogers — primary (person)
• Darlene Taylor — primary (person)
• Jason Shaw — primary (person)
• Matt Dollar — primary (person)
• Quincy Murphy — primary (person)
• Rich Golick — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-03-20 House Hopper
• 2013-03-21 House First Readers reading-1
• 2013-03-22 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2014-02-05 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2014-02-10 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2014-02-10 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2014-02-11 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2014-03-12 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2014-03-12 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2014-03-18 Senate Tabled
• 2014-03-18 Senate Taken from Table
• 2014-03-18 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2014-03-18 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2014-03-26 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2014-04-29 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2014-04-29 Act 659 executive-signature
• 2014-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/495720d9-e579-4da3-8719-b647e5004897. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).