republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2013-14/hb-389.md

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Bill	Insurance; provide conversion and enhanced conversion rights and coverage; sunset requirements	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 33 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to insurance, so as to sunset requirements to provide conversion and enhanced conversion rights and coverage; to add new provisions allowing for the discontinuance of conversion and enhanced conversion coverage; to sunset certain provisions related to the assignment system; to add new provisions allowing for the discontinuance of assignment system benefit plans; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2013_14	HB 389	Georgia HB 389 (2013_14)	bill		enacted	Alex Atwood Carl Rogers Darlene Taylor Jason Shaw John Meadows Richard Smith	2	15	1	2013-02-19	2013-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/79e4f19b-17c6-4fd7-9d90-51ac1da41a83	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	4df1f4455e7d68852eb6a268e804d782214cce980330a7393323af149a5efedf	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 389 (2013_14) — Insurance; provide conversion and enhanced conversion rights and coverage; sunset requirements

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 33 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to insurance, so as to sunset requirements to provide conversion and enhanced conversion rights and coverage; to add new provisions allowing for the discontinuance of conversion and enhanced conversion coverage; to sunset certain provisions related to the assignment system; to add new provisions allowing for the discontinuance of assignment system benefit plans; 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 389/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 37 1541/a (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 150–16 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Alex Atwood — primary (person)
• Carl Rogers — primary (person)
• Darlene Taylor — primary (person)
• Jason Shaw — primary (person)
• John Meadows — primary (person)
• Richard Smith — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-02-19 House Hopper
• 2013-02-20 House First Readers reading-1
• 2013-02-21 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2013-02-28 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-03-05 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2013-03-05 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2013-03-07 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2013-03-20 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-03-21 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2013-03-25 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2013-03-25 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2013-04-01 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2013-05-07 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2013-05-07 Act 278 executive-signature
• 2013-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/79e4f19b-17c6-4fd7-9d90-51ac1da41a83. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).