republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2013-14/sb-140.md

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Bill	Insurance; include contracts, agreements, and instruments for repair of a motor vehicle	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 33-7-6 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to property insurance, contract requirements, rules and regulations, and exemptions, so as to include contracts, agreements, and instruments for the repair of certain wear and tear of a motor vehicle to include rips, burns, tears, holes, and punctures to interior fabric or carpet, cosmetic repair to aluminum or painted wheels, and exterior reconditioning of foggy or yellowed headlights within the definition of property insurance in a manner similar to vehicle service agreements or extended warranty agreements; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2013_14	SB 140	Georgia SB 140 (2013_14)	bill		enacted	Butch Miller Frank Ginn Jack Murphy Jeff Mullis Steve Gooch	4	15	1	2013-02-08	2013-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/81c4cdf7-2074-43de-a8ce-afb99a5eb576	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	70439ef546644f8310491b18d95eb8dae5acc0d1d4f45492c05571febaa04260	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 140 (2013_14) — Insurance; include contracts, agreements, and instruments for repair of a motor vehicle

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 33-7-6 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to property insurance, contract requirements, rules and regulations, and exemptions, so as to include contracts, agreements, and instruments for the repair of certain wear and tear of a motor vehicle to include rips, burns, tears, holes, and punctures to interior fabric or carpet, cosmetic repair to aluminum or painted wheels, and exterior reconditioning of foggy or yellowed headlights within the definition of property insurance in a manner similar to vehicle service agreements or extended warranty agreements; 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. As introduced LC 37 1487 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 37 1548S (committee substitute) — source
4. SB 140/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — 53–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Butch Miller — primary (person)
• Frank Ginn — primary (person)
• Jack Murphy — primary (person)
• Jeff Mullis — primary (person)
• Steve Gooch — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-02-08 Senate Hopper
• 2013-02-11 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2013-02-22 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-02-25 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2013-02-28 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2013-02-28 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2013-03-01 House First Readers reading-1
• 2013-03-04 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2013-03-13 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-03-21 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2013-03-21 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2013-04-03 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2013-05-06 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2013-05-06 Act 214 executive-signature
• 2013-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/81c4cdf7-2074-43de-a8ce-afb99a5eb576. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).