republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2019-20/hb-789.md

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Bill	Insurance; creation of a surprise bill rating system based upon the number of certain physician specialty groups contracted with a hospital within a health insurer's network; provide	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 20C of Title 33 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to accurate provider directories, so as to provide for the creation of a surprise bill rating system based upon the number of certain physician specialty groups contracted with a hospital within a health insurer's network; to provide for definitions; to provide for a requirement that insurers include hospital surprise bill ratings online and in print provider directories; to provide for a requirement that each insurer that advertises any hospital as in-network shall disclose such hospital's surprise bill rating within such advertisement; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2019_20	HB 789	Georgia HB 789 (2019_20)	bill		enacted	Houston Gaines Jan Jones Jon Burns Marcus Wiedower Mark Newton Matt Hatchett	5	17	1	2020-01-16	2020-11-01	openstates	ocd-bill/942bfd83-a5f5-4af9-8fc8-577adda06afa	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	f954e2f936f5580f3d80132d824e1ede0f739fc3fed206a142982e049e321f33	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 789 (2019_20) — Insurance; creation of a surprise bill rating system based upon the number of certain physician specialty groups contracted with a hospital within a health insurer's network; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 20C of Title 33 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to accurate provider directories, so as to provide for the creation of a surprise bill rating system based upon the number of certain physician specialty groups contracted with a hospital within a health insurer's network; to provide for definitions; to provide for a requirement that insurers include hospital surprise bill ratings online and in print provider directories; to provide for a requirement that each insurer that advertises any hospital as in-network shall disclose such hospital's surprise bill rating within such advertisement; 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 789/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 46 0206/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 46 0237S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 46 0237S/hs (committee substitute) — source
5. Sen ctee sub LC 46 0326S (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 170–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Houston Gaines — primary (person)
• Jan Jones — primary (person)
• Jon Burns — primary (person)
• Marcus Wiedower — primary (person)
• Mark Newton — primary (person)
• Matt Hatchett — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-16 House Hopper
• 2020-01-27 House First Readers reading-1
• 2020-01-28 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2020-02-04 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-03-03 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2020-03-03 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2020-03-04 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2020-06-18 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-06-19 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2020-06-22 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2020-06-22 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2020-06-22 Senate Transmitted House
• 2020-06-24 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
• 2020-06-29 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2020-07-16 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2020-07-16 Act 475 executive-signature
• 2020-11-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/942bfd83-a5f5-4af9-8fc8-577adda06afa. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).