republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2021-22/sb-43.md

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Bill	"Noncovered Eye Care Services Act"; enact	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 33-6-4 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the enumeration of unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices and penalty, so as to provide that certain actions by health care insurers offering eye care benefit plans constitute unfair trade practices; to provide for definitions; to provide for a short title; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2021_22	SB 43	Georgia SB 43 (2021_22)	bill		enacted	Brian Strickland Butch Miller Carden Summers Elena Parent Emanuel Jones Frank Ginn Greg Dolezal Jason Anavitarte Jeff Mullis John Albers Larry Walker, III Lester Jackson Matt Brass Max Burns	5	16	1	2021-01-28	2021-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/ebc9d6de-05f9-4d6f-af76-d60ac2d3761b	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	d528e00569354b9be55757522efc79b69f171735b90c694335b76711682030db	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 43 (2021_22) — "Noncovered Eye Care Services Act"; enact

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 33-6-4 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the enumeration of unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices and penalty, so as to provide that certain actions by health care insurers offering eye care benefit plans constitute unfair trade practices; to provide for definitions; to provide for a short title; 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 0367 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 46 0407S (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 46 0453S/hss (committee substitute) — source
5. SB 43/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — 50–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Brian Strickland — primary (person)
• Butch Miller — primary (person)
• Carden Summers — primary (person)
• Elena Parent — primary (person)
• Emanuel Jones — primary (person)
• Frank Ginn — primary (person)
• Greg Dolezal — primary (person)
• Jason Anavitarte — primary (person)
• Jeff Mullis — primary (person)
• John Albers — primary (person)
• Larry Walker, III — primary (person)
• Lester Jackson — primary (person)
• Matt Brass — primary (person)
• Max Burns — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-01-28 Senate Hopper
• 2021-01-29 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2021-02-10 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-02-11 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2021-02-16 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2021-02-16 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2021-02-17 House First Readers reading-1
• 2021-02-18 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2021-03-10 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-03-17 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2021-03-17 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2021-03-29 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2021-04-07 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2021-05-06 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2021-05-06 Act 248 executive-signature
• 2021-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ebc9d6de-05f9-4d6f-af76-d60ac2d3761b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).