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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Special license plates; marine habitat conservation; provide"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 40-2-86 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to special license plates promoting certain beneficial projects and supporting certain worthy agencies, funds, or nonprofit corporations, so as to provide for a special license plate promoting marine habitat conservation; to provide for related matters; to require a two-thirds' majority vote for passage in accordance with constitutional requirements; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
+legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
+session: "2015_16"
+identifier: "HB 736"
+citation: "Georgia HB 736 (2015_16)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Al Williams", "Alex Atwood", "Jeff Jones", "Jesse Petrea", "Joe Wilkinson", "Ron Stephens"]
+version_count: 10
+action_count: 18
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2016-01-12"
+last_action: "2016-04-26"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/363e4980-9745-43da-a64b-f3d74bddf206"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "d5f07d26dfea01c56abdf1efc2d0732fee782ace26f41b81d618b9b95a3b558b"
+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 736 (2015_16) — Special license plates; marine habitat conservation; provide
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 40-2-86 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to special license plates promoting certain beneficial projects and supporting certain worthy agencies, funds, or nonprofit corporations, so as to provide for a special license plate promoting marine habitat conservation; to provide for related matters; to require a two-thirds' majority vote for passage in accordance with constitutional requirements; 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. **Floor Amendment AM 39 0153** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/158857.pdf)
+2. **Floor Amendment AM 41 0217** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/161960.pdf)
+3. **Floor amend 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/160782.pdf)
+4. **HB 736/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/162316.pdf)
+5. **HB 736/CSFA** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/158962.pdf)
+6. **LC 39 1318S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/158037.pdf)
+7. **LC 40 0979/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/154346.pdf)
+8. **SCSFA to HB736** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/160807.pdf)
+9. **Sen Floor AM 2 AM 39 0166** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/160784.pdf)
+10. **Sen ctee sub LC 41 0804S** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/159950.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **158–1** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Al Williams — primary (person)
+- Alex Atwood — primary (person)
+- Jeff Jones — primary (person)
+- Jesse Petrea — primary (person)
+- Joe Wilkinson — primary (person)
+- Ron Stephens — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2016-01-12** House Hopper
+- **2016-01-13** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2016-01-14** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2016-02-19** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2016-02-26** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2016-02-26** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2016-02-29** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2016-03-10** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2016-03-11** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2016-03-16** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2016-03-16** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2016-03-24** House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub As Amended
+- **2016-03-24** Senate Disagreed House Amend or Sub
+- **2016-03-24** House Receded from Amend or Sub
+- **2016-04-04** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2016-04-26** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2016-04-26** Act 331 `executive-signature`
+- **2016-04-26** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/363e4980-9745-43da-a64b-f3d74bddf206`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+