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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Highways, bridges and ferries; require annual submission of State-wide Strategic Transportation progress report; provisions"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 32 of the O.C.G.A., relating to highways, bridges, and ferries, so as to require the annual submission of a State-wide Strategic Transportation Plan progress report; to provide for an increase to limitations of counties and municipalities for negotiating contracts involving public roads; to amend Title 40 of the O.C.G.A., relating to motor vehicles, so as to remove the requirement of maintaining certain records by the Department of Driver Services; to provide for additional meanings for certain traffic signals; to provide for an exception to the requirement to stop a vehicle when approaching an inoperative traffic signal; to provide for an increase to maximum lawful speed limits; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
+legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
+session: "2013_14"
+identifier: "HB 774"
+citation: "Georgia HB 774 (2013_14)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Al Williams", "Chad Nimmer", "James Epps", "Jay Roberts", "John Deffenbaugh", "Sam Watson"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2014-01-17"
+last_action: "2014-07-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7010b1a6-2103-486d-a97a-0e9a67e3747d"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "14e5092cc5da8269c23a1211ea8f84e5be6422304dbc43ecdabf2bcf4d348aa6"
+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 774 (2013_14) — Highways, bridges and ferries; require annual submission of State-wide Strategic Transportation progress report; provisions
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 32 of the O.C.G.A., relating to highways, bridges, and ferries, so as to require the annual submission of a State-wide Strategic Transportation Plan progress report; to provide for an increase to limitations of counties and municipalities for negotiating contracts involving public roads; to amend Title 40 of the O.C.G.A., relating to motor vehicles, so as to remove the requirement of maintaining certain records by the Department of Driver Services; to provide for additional meanings for certain traffic signals; to provide for an exception to the requirement to stop a vehicle when approaching an inoperative traffic signal; to provide for an increase to maximum lawful speed limits; 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 774/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/143203.pdf)
+2. **LC 39 0526/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/137623.pdf)
+3. **SCSFA to HB 774** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/142478.pdf)
+4. **Sen ctee sub LC 39 0620S** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/139704.pdf)
+5. **Sen floor amend 1 AM 39 0062** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/142463.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **157–7** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Al Williams — primary (person)
+- Chad Nimmer — primary (person)
+- James Epps — primary (person)
+- Jay Roberts — primary (person)
+- John Deffenbaugh — primary (person)
+- Sam Watson — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2014-01-17** House Hopper
+- **2014-01-21** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2014-01-22** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2014-01-24** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2014-02-03** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2014-02-03** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2014-02-04** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2014-02-11** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2014-02-17** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2014-03-05** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2014-03-05** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2014-03-11** House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
+- **2014-03-24** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2014-04-29** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2014-04-29** Act 665 `executive-signature`
+- **2014-07-01** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7010b1a6-2103-486d-a97a-0e9a67e3747d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+