republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2019-20/hb-227.md

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Bill	Insurance; discrimination against victims of family violence to include victims of sexual assault; expand prohibitions	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 33-6-4 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to enumeration of unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices regarding insurance, so as to expand prohibitions on discrimination against victims of family violence to include victims of sexual assault; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2019_20	HB 227	Georgia HB 227 (2019_20)	bill		enacted	Bee Nguyen Debbie Buckner Demetrius Douglas Michael Smith Park Cannon Spencer Frye	7	15	1	2019-02-08	2019-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/05b4e5d7-1e17-4726-ac35-a60cc49d9b88	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	dc7162131f088daff193dc1ab9b310af20f7f45faeef2513aef15f9af2c97241	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 227 (2019_20) — Insurance; discrimination against victims of family violence to include victims of sexual assault; expand prohibitions

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 33-6-4 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to enumeration of unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices regarding insurance, so as to expand prohibitions on discrimination against victims of family violence to include victims of sexual assault; 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. HB 227/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 46 0056/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 46 0123S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 46 0123S/hs (committee substitute) — source
5. Sen floor amend 1 AM 46 0002 (committee substitute) — source
6. Sen floor amend 2 (committee substitute) — source
7. Sen floor amend 2a (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 164–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bee Nguyen — primary (person)
• Debbie Buckner — primary (person)
• Demetrius Douglas — primary (person)
• Michael Smith — primary (person)
• Park Cannon — primary (person)
• Spencer Frye — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-08 House Hopper
• 2019-02-11 House First Readers reading-1
• 2019-02-12 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2019-02-27 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-03-05 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2019-03-05 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2019-03-07 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2019-03-21 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-03-22 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2019-03-25 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2019-03-25 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2019-04-04 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2019-05-07 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2019-05-07 Act 273 executive-signature
• 2019-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/05b4e5d7-1e17-4726-ac35-a60cc49d9b88. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).