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type: "Bill"
title: "Motor vehicles; prohibition regarding eligibility of certain violators to receive early reinstatement of their driver's licenses and limited driving permits; repeal"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 3A of Chapter 5 of Title 40 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to suspension of license for being in control of a moving vehicle under the influence of a controlled substance or marijuana, so as to repeal a prohibition regarding the eligibility of certain violators to receive early reinstatement of their driver's licenses and limited driving permits; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2019_20"
identifier: "HB 799"
citation: "Georgia HB 799 (2019_20)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dar'shun Kendrick", "John Corbett", "Mary Oliver", "Shaw Blackmon", "Steven Sainz", "Trey Kelley"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2020-01-16"
last_action: "2020-07-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d06ef011-e6d9-434b-ae7a-720668415c5a"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "2d91dbf920ea31c7a8eb646e4a921f087f291401487c1b8e13a551082a31e7e7"
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 799 (2019_20) — Motor vehicles; prohibition regarding eligibility of certain violators to receive early reinstatement of their driver's licenses and limited driving permits; repeal
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 3A of Chapter 5 of Title 40 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to suspension of license for being in control of a moving vehicle under the influence of a controlled substance or marijuana, so as to repeal a prohibition regarding the eligibility of certain violators to receive early reinstatement of their driver's licenses and limited driving permits; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; 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 799/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/194588.pdf)
2. **LC 28 9488/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/188193.pdf)
## Votes
- PASSAGE — **159–0** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Dar'shun Kendrick — primary (person)
- John Corbett — primary (person)
- Mary Oliver — primary (person)
- Shaw Blackmon — primary (person)
- Steven Sainz — primary (person)
- Trey Kelley — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-01-16** House Hopper
- **2020-01-27** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2020-01-28** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2020-02-21** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-26** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2020-02-26** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2020-02-27** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2020-06-15** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-06-16** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2020-06-22** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2020-06-22** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2020-06-29** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2020-07-29** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2020-07-29** Act 494 `executive-signature`
- **2020-07-29** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d06ef011-e6d9-434b-ae7a-720668415c5a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).