republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/hb-402.md

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Bill	Insurance; encourage employers to provide work based learning opportunities for students age 16 and older; provisions	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 9 of Title 33 and Chapter 9 of Title 34 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to regulation of insurance rates and workers' compensation, respectively, so as to encourage employers to provide work based learning opportunities for students age 16 and older; to provide for an optional reduction in workers' compensation premiums for employers that provide work based learning; to provide that work based learning students are covered under workers' compensation insurance; to establish criteria for employers providing work based learning; to provide for legislative findings; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	HB 402	Georgia HB 402 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Brooks Coleman Bruce Broadrick Eddie Lumsden Mike Dudgeon Terry England Tom Dickson	4	15	1	2015-02-19	2016-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/486f5539-0cb1-4fce-88a3-a0f17391fec9	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	e8bd3c6d8e72a206e5ad0991ca8fc0036ac6b172d59977383aa459ba5baf6988	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 402 (2015_16) — Insurance; encourage employers to provide work based learning opportunities for students age 16 and older; provisions

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 9 of Title 33 and Chapter 9 of Title 34 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to regulation of insurance rates and workers' compensation, respectively, so as to encourage employers to provide work based learning opportunities for students age 16 and older; to provide for an optional reduction in workers' compensation premiums for employers that provide work based learning; to provide that work based learning students are covered under workers' compensation insurance; to establish criteria for employers providing work based learning; to provide for legislative findings; 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 402/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 33 5889/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 36 2944S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 36 2944S/hs (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 166–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Brooks Coleman — primary (person)
• Bruce Broadrick — primary (person)
• Eddie Lumsden — primary (person)
• Mike Dudgeon — primary (person)
• Terry England — primary (person)
• Tom Dickson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-19 House Hopper
• 2015-02-20 House First Readers reading-1
• 2015-02-23 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2016-01-28 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-02-03 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2016-02-03 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2016-02-04 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2016-03-10 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-03-11 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2016-03-22 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2016-03-22 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2016-03-29 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2016-04-26 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2016-04-26 Act 356 executive-signature
• 2016-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/486f5539-0cb1-4fce-88a3-a0f17391fec9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).