republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2019-20/sb-156.md

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Bill	Insurance; division of a domestic insurer into two or more resulting domestic insurers; provide	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 the division of a domestic insurer into two or more resulting domestic insurers; to provide for definitions; to provide for a plan of division subject to approval by the Insurance Commissioner; to amend Part 1 of Article 13 of Chapter 2 of Title 14 of the O.C.G.A., relating to the right to dissent and obtain payment for shares, so as to add the right to dissent and obtain payment for shares for a division of a domestic insurer; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2019_20	SB 156	Georgia SB 156 (2019_20)	bill		enacted	P. K. Martin IV	5	15	1	2019-02-21	2019-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/44b27192-df55-45b3-9f92-413a5ece0a76	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	b653ee2bcb1bbeecb1ec6b05703d6ef2118cc41f59e087dc1d37ae5e39db35e0	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 156 (2019_20) — Insurance; division of a domestic insurer into two or more resulting domestic insurers; provide

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 the division of a domestic insurer into two or more resulting domestic insurers; to provide for definitions; to provide for a plan of division subject to approval by the Insurance Commissioner; to amend Part 1 of Article 13 of Chapter 2 of Title 14 of the O.C.G.A., relating to the right to dissent and obtain payment for shares, so as to add the right to dissent and obtain payment for shares for a division of a domestic insurer; 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. As introduced LC 46 0104ER (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 46 0116ERS (committee substitute) — source
4. Floor amend 1 AM 46 0012 (committee substitute) — source
5. SB156/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — 53–1 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• P. K. Martin IV — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-21 Senate Hopper
• 2019-02-22 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2019-02-26 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-02-27 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2019-02-28 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2019-02-28 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2019-03-01 House First Readers reading-1
• 2019-03-04 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2019-03-13 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-03-18 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2019-03-18 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2019-04-05 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2019-05-02 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2019-05-02 Act 147 executive-signature
• 2019-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/44b27192-df55-45b3-9f92-413a5ece0a76. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).