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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Motor vehicles; applicability of certain consumer protection laws to autonomous vehicles; provide"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 40-8-11 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to operational rules for autonomous vehicles, so as to provide for the applicability of certain consumer protection laws to autonomous vehicles; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
+legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
+session: "2017_18"
+identifier: "HB 717"
+citation: "Georgia HB 717 (2017_18)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bert Reeves", "Christian Coomer", "Kevin Tanner", "Meagan Hanson", "Trey Kelley"]
+version_count: 0
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2018-01-19"
+last_action: "2018-07-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5ef7a7f8-8b47-46c2-bb9e-f3f6d4aa214b"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "78b889eee425642161151afa26591fa54906407178d7bb3be612ccb12eae0de2"
+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 717 (2017_18) — Motor vehicles; applicability of certain consumer protection laws to autonomous vehicles; provide
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 40-8-11 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to operational rules for autonomous vehicles, so as to provide for the applicability of certain consumer protection laws to autonomous vehicles; 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.
+
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **162–3** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bert Reeves — primary (person)
+- Christian Coomer — primary (person)
+- Kevin Tanner — primary (person)
+- Meagan Hanson — primary (person)
+- Trey Kelley — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-01-19** House Hopper
+- **2018-01-22** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2018-01-23** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2018-01-30** House Withdrawn, Recommitted `withdrawal, referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-12** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-02-20** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2018-02-20** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2018-02-21** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-21** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-21** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2018-03-27** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2018-03-27** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2018-04-02** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2018-05-03** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2018-05-03** Act 331 `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/5ef7a7f8-8b47-46c2-bb9e-f3f6d4aa214b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+