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type: "Bill"
title: "Insurance; reimbursement for treatment of burns for skin substitutes utilizing cadaver derived skin tissue or nonhuman xenographic derived skin tissue; provide"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 24 of Title 33 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to insurance general provisions, so as to provide reimbursement for the treatment of burns for skin substitutes utilizing cadaver derived skin tissue or nonhuman xenographic derived skin tissue; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2015_16"
identifier: "HB 409"
citation: "Georgia HB 409 (2015_16)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Amy Carter", "Barbara Sims", "Ben Harbin", "Darlene Taylor", "Pat Gardner", "Sharon Cooper"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2015-02-19"
last_action: "2015-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/359e7f27-5212-4f5d-b5e2-1819ad07ac16"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "d92e3650c00e19003fef48eba8a5478b939a81e71e806e324b658126a892aeb5"
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 409 (2015_16) — Insurance; reimbursement for treatment of burns for skin substitutes utilizing cadaver derived skin tissue or nonhuman xenographic derived skin tissue; provide
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 24 of Title 33 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to insurance general provisions, so as to provide reimbursement for the treatment of burns for skin substitutes utilizing cadaver derived skin tissue or nonhuman xenographic derived skin tissue; 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 409/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/153845.pdf)
2. **LC 37 1918/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/148530.pdf)
3. **LC 37 1978S/hcs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/151273.pdf)
4. **LC 37 1978S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/150736.pdf)
## Votes
- PASSAGE — **1730** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Amy Carter — primary (person)
- Barbara Sims — primary (person)
- Ben Harbin — primary (person)
- Darlene Taylor — primary (person)
- Pat Gardner — primary (person)
- Sharon Cooper — 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`
- **2015-03-11** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-03-13** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2015-03-13** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2015-03-18** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-27** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-03-27** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2015-03-31** Senate Tabled
- **2015-04-02** Senate Taken from Table
- **2015-04-02** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2015-04-02** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2015-04-07** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2015-05-12** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2015-05-12** Act 207 `executive-signature`
- **2015-07-01** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/359e7f27-5212-4f5d-b5e2-1819ad07ac16`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).