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type: "Bill"
title: "Insurance; provide changes to the captive insurance company provisions; add definitions"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 33 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to insurance, so as to provide for changes to the captive insurance company provisions; to add certain definitions; to change prerequisites to transacting insurance; to amend provisions relating to directors; to revise the required amounts of capital or surplus for each captive insurance company; to provide for application of certain provisions to the examination of a captive insurance company and add confidentiality of certain information and documents provided to the Commissioner; to change the taxation requirements; 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 552"
citation: "Georgia HB 552 (2015_16)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bruce Williamson", "Chuck Efstration", "Jason Shaw", "Rich Golick", "Richard Smith"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 16
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2015-03-04"
last_action: "2015-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b1e730a3-c0d7-4863-935d-6a7f7dd2dddd"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "1a0d84255bb0e7ea45ce9f9f3a36a456c417158111904bb0c66f3d899974a599"
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 552 (2015_16) — Insurance; provide changes to the captive insurance company provisions; add definitions
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 33 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to insurance, so as to provide for changes to the captive insurance company provisions; to add certain definitions; to change prerequisites to transacting insurance; to amend provisions relating to directors; to revise the required amounts of capital or surplus for each captive insurance company; to provide for application of certain provisions to the examination of a captive insurance company and add confidentiality of certain information and documents provided to the Commissioner; to change the taxation requirements; 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 552/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/153765.pdf)
2. **LC 37 1957ER/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/150022.pdf)
3. **LC 37 1971ERS/hcs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/151231.pdf)
4. **LC 37 1971ERS/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/150732.pdf)
5. **Sen ctee sub LC 37 2018ERS** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/152465.pdf)
## Votes
- PASSAGE — **1710** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Bruce Williamson — primary (person)
- Chuck Efstration — primary (person)
- Jason Shaw — primary (person)
- Rich Golick — primary (person)
- Richard Smith — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2015-03-04** House Hopper
- **2015-03-04** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2015-03-05** 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`
- **2015-03-26** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-03-26** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2015-03-31** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2015-03-31** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2015-04-02** House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
- **2015-04-09** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2015-05-05** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2015-05-05** Act 67 `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/b1e730a3-c0d7-4863-935d-6a7f7dd2dddd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).