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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Special license plates; Georgia Forestry Foundation; establish"
+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 and supporting certain beneficial projects, agencies, funds, or nonprofit corporations, so as to establish a specialty license plate honoring Georgia's working forests and the Georgia Forestry Foundation; to provide for related matters; to provide for compliance with constitutional requirements; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
+legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
+session: "2017_18"
+identifier: "HB 695"
+citation: "Georgia HB 695 (2017_18)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Chad Nimmer", "James Epps", "Jason Shaw", "Robert Dickey", "Terry England", "Tom McCall"]
+version_count: 0
+action_count: 17
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2018-01-18"
+last_action: "2018-07-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/26c74f0f-a027-4d7e-bd69-ad14e454fe9a"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "883bfd762bc6fc4915015779fa2c24a327b968021d963916608c790062da6031"
+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 695 (2017_18) — Special license plates; Georgia Forestry Foundation; establish
+
+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 and supporting certain beneficial projects, agencies, funds, or nonprofit corporations, so as to establish a specialty license plate honoring Georgia's working forests and the Georgia Forestry Foundation; to provide for related matters; to provide for compliance 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.
+
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **169–1** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Chad Nimmer — primary (person)
+- James Epps — primary (person)
+- Jason Shaw — primary (person)
+- Robert Dickey — primary (person)
+- Terry England — primary (person)
+- Tom McCall — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-01-18** House Hopper
+- **2018-01-19** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2018-01-22** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2018-01-30** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-02-22** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2018-02-22** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2018-02-23** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-07** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-09** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2018-03-14** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2018-03-14** Senate Passed/Adopted As Amended `passage`
+- **2018-03-29** House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub As Amended
+- **2018-03-29** Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
+- **2018-04-06** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2018-05-08** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2018-05-08** Act 464 `executive-signature`
+- **2018-07-01** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/26c74f0f-a027-4d7e-bd69-ad14e454fe9a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+