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type: "Bill"
title: "State Employees' Health Insurance Plan; services covered and furnished by a federally qualified health center are reimbursed at no less than the Medicare maximum; provide"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 1 of Article 1 of Chapter 18 of Title 45 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the state employees' health insurance plan, so as to provide that services covered under the state health benefit plan and furnished by a federally qualified health center are reimbursed at no less than the Medicare maximum allowable reimbursement rate; to provide for definitions; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2019_20"
identifier: "SB 184"
citation: "Georgia SB 184 (2019_20)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ben Watson", "Bruce Thompson", "Burt Jones", "Butch Miller", "Chuck Payne", "Chuck Hufstetler", "Dean Burke", "Emanuel Jones", "Frank Ginn", "Freddie Sims", "Greg Kirk", "Jack Hill", "Jeff Mullis", "John Kennedy", "John Wilkinson", "Kay Kirkpatrick", "Larry Walker, III", "Lee Anderson", "Lester Jackson", "Marty Harbin", "Matt Brass", "Mike Dugan", "Nan Orrock", "Randy Robertson", "Steve Gooch", "Steve Henson", "Tyler Harper", "William Ligon, Jr."]
version_count: 4
action_count: 15
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2019-02-25"
last_action: "2019-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e63f1775-9825-49c8-9fbb-b25ef462f45b"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "658804962afd3524f9daf7d5cbb4c1d860b36b32b59fd45e3e02681d165294c5"
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 SB 184 (2019_20) — State Employees' Health Insurance Plan; services covered and furnished by a federally qualified health center are reimbursed at no less than the Medicare maximum; provide
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 1 of Article 1 of Chapter 18 of Title 45 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the state employees' health insurance plan, so as to provide that services covered under the state health benefit plan and furnished by a federally qualified health center are reimbursed at no less than the Medicare maximum allowable reimbursement rate; to provide for definitions; 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 33 7782** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/182640.pdf)
2. **As passed Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/183855.pdf)
3. **Committee sub LC 33 7845S** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/183208.pdf)
4. **SB184/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/185978.pdf)
## Votes
- PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — **53–0** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Ben Watson — primary (person)
- Bruce Thompson — primary (person)
- Burt Jones — primary (person)
- Butch Miller — primary (person)
- Chuck Payne — primary (person)
- Chuck Hufstetler — primary (person)
- Dean Burke — primary (person)
- Emanuel Jones — primary (person)
- Frank Ginn — primary (person)
- Freddie Sims — primary (person)
- Greg Kirk — primary (person)
- Jack Hill — primary (person)
- Jeff Mullis — primary (person)
- John Kennedy — primary (person)
- John Wilkinson — primary (person)
- Kay Kirkpatrick — primary (person)
- Larry Walker, III — primary (person)
- Lee Anderson — primary (person)
- Lester Jackson — primary (person)
- Marty Harbin — primary (person)
- Matt Brass — primary (person)
- Mike Dugan — primary (person)
- Nan Orrock — primary (person)
- Randy Robertson — primary (person)
- Steve Gooch — primary (person)
- Steve Henson — primary (person)
- Tyler Harper — primary (person)
- William Ligon, Jr. — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-02-25** Senate Hopper
- **2019-02-26** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-28** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-01** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2019-03-05** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2019-03-05** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2019-03-07** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2019-03-08** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2019-03-18** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-25** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2019-03-25** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2019-04-09** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-04-25** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2019-04-25** Act 49 `executive-signature`
- **2019-07-01** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e63f1775-9825-49c8-9fbb-b25ef462f45b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).