republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2025-26/sb-276.md

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Bill	Recovery of Medical Assistance from Third Party; certain provisions to comply with federal law; revise	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 49-4-148 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to recovery of medical assistance from third party liable for sickness, injury, disease, or disability, so as to revise certain provisions to comply with federal law; to bar liable third-party payers from refusing payment solely because a healthcare item or service did not receive prior authorization; to require a third-party payer to respond to an inquiry from the Department of Community Health regarding a healthcare claim within 60 days; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2025_26	SB 276	Georgia SB 276 (2025_26)	bill	INSURANCE SOCIAL SERVICES	enacted	Ben Watson Blake Tillery Bo Hatchett Brian Strickland Chuck Hufstetler Drew Echols John F. Kennedy Kay Kirkpatrick Shawn Still Timothy Bearden	3	15	2	2025-02-26	2025-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/f7b038b2-bd57-4abc-bfa5-2044d985bec9	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	479cd98b7cdfeef5397675fdecdaa3548f4de5f4e09c7e46a2f7c60ec6209559	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 276 (2025_26) — Recovery of Medical Assistance from Third Party; certain provisions to comply with federal law; revise

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 49-4-148 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to recovery of medical assistance from third party liable for sickness, injury, disease, or disability, so as to revise certain provisions to comply with federal law; to bar liable third-party payers from refusing payment solely because a healthcare item or service did not receive prior authorization; to require a third-party payer to respond to an inquiry from the Department of Community Health regarding a healthcare claim within 60 days; 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 Passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
2. As introduced LC 52 0780 (committee substitute) — source
3. SB 276/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate Vote #166 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 54–1 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #284 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 168–2 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Ben Watson — primary (person)
• Blake Tillery — primary (person)
• Bo Hatchett — primary (person)
• Brian Strickland — primary (person)
• Chuck Hufstetler — primary (person)
• Drew Echols — primary (person)
• John F. Kennedy — primary (person)
• Kay Kirkpatrick — primary (person)
• Shawn Still — primary (person)
• Timothy Bearden — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-26 Senate Hopper introduction
• 2025-02-27 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2025-03-03 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-04 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2025-03-06 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2025-03-06 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2025-03-10 House First Readers reading-1
• 2025-03-11 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2025-03-13 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-18 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2025-03-18 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2025-04-07 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-05-14 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2025-05-14 Act 297 executive-signature
• 2025-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f7b038b2-bd57-4abc-bfa5-2044d985bec9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).