republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2019-20/hb-888.md

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Bill	Surprise Billing Consumer Protection Act; enact	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 33 of the O.C.G.A., relating to insurance, so as to provide for certain consumer protections against surprise billing; to provide for a short title; to provide for applicability; to provide for definitions; to provide mechanisms to resolve payment disputes between insurers and out-of-network providers regarding the provision of healthcare services; to require the department to provide for the maintenance of an all-payer health claims data base; to provide for in-network cost-sharing amounts in healthcare plan contracts; to establish an arbitration process; to require the Commissioner of Insurance to contract with one or more resolution organizations; to require the promulgation of department rules; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2019_20	HB 888	Georgia HB 888 (2019_20)	bill		enacted	Calvin Smyre Eddie Lumsden Gerald Greene Jodi Lott Lee Hawkins Terry Rogers	5	17	1	2020-02-04	2021-01-01	openstates	ocd-bill/e948a12d-1f05-4ab6-a978-70de61d3b87d	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	4252ac00dde53e8ed953deb8eff2169cdcb1fdfbcc534775d76bdd28676a890a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 888 (2019_20) — Surprise Billing Consumer Protection Act; enact

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 33 of the O.C.G.A., relating to insurance, so as to provide for certain consumer protections against surprise billing; to provide for a short title; to provide for applicability; to provide for definitions; to provide mechanisms to resolve payment disputes between insurers and out-of-network providers regarding the provision of healthcare services; to require the department to provide for the maintenance of an all-payer health claims data base; to provide for in-network cost-sharing amounts in healthcare plan contracts; to establish an arbitration process; to require the Commissioner of Insurance to contract with one or more resolution organizations; to require the promulgation of department rules; 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 888/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 46 0246/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 46 0275S/hs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 46 0302S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
5. LC 46 0302S/hs (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 164–4 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Calvin Smyre — primary (person)
• Eddie Lumsden — primary (person)
• Gerald Greene — primary (person)
• Jodi Lott — primary (person)
• Lee Hawkins — primary (person)
• Terry Rogers — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-02-04 House Hopper
• 2020-02-05 House First Readers reading-1
• 2020-02-18 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2020-02-19 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-02-19 House Withdrawn, Recommitted withdrawal, referral-committee
• 2020-02-28 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
• 2020-06-15 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-06-16 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2020-06-17 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2020-06-17 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2020-06-29 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2020-07-16 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2020-07-16 Act 470 executive-signature
• 2021-01-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e948a12d-1f05-4ab6-a978-70de61d3b87d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).