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type: "Bill"
title: "Insurance; revise meaning of property insurance; change parameters under which certain contracts or agreements may be canceled"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 33-7-6 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to property insurance, contract requirements, rules and regulations, and exemptions, so as to revise the meaning of property insurance; to change the parameters under which certain contracts, agreements, or instruments may be canceled; to provide for penalties; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2021_22"
identifier: "HB 241"
citation: "Georgia HB 241 (2021_22)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Eddie Lumsden", "Houston Gaines", "Matthew Gambill", "Noel Williams, Jr.", "Vance Smith"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-02-01"
last_action: "2021-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/70c91ba3-7b0d-4577-bda5-6c8b76ddeb14"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "6a8fe41ac337fec279a21de1fa91e157aa6abce7b822df0d09e7c3af586c0bb9"
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 HB 241 (2021_22) — Insurance; revise meaning of property insurance; change parameters under which certain contracts or agreements may be canceled
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 33-7-6 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to property insurance, contract requirements, rules and regulations, and exemptions, so as to revise the meaning of property insurance; to change the parameters under which certain contracts, agreements, or instruments may be canceled; to provide for penalties; 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 241/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/202402.pdf)
2. **LC 46 0388/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/196471.pdf)
3. **LC 46 0406S/hcs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/198475.pdf)
4. **LC 46 0406S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/197289.pdf)
## Votes
- PASSAGE — **166–0** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Eddie Lumsden — primary (person)
- Houston Gaines — primary (person)
- Matthew Gambill — primary (person)
- Noel Williams, Jr. — primary (person)
- Vance Smith — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-02-01** House Hopper
- **2021-02-02** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2021-02-03** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2021-02-10** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-23** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2021-02-23** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2021-02-24** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-17** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-18** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2021-03-29** Senate Tabled
- **2021-03-31** Senate Taken from Table
- **2021-03-31** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2021-03-31** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2021-04-09** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2021-05-03** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2021-05-03** Act 149 `executive-signature`
- **2021-07-01** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/70c91ba3-7b0d-4577-bda5-6c8b76ddeb14`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).