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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Motor vehicles; commercial carriers; amend certain definitions"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 1 of Title 40 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to identification and regulation of motor vehicles, so as to amend certain definitions relating to commercial carriers; 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 861"
+citation: "Georgia HB 861 (2019_20)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Dale Washburn", "Houston Gaines", "Jan Jones", "Marcus Wiedower", "Matt Barton", "Micah Gravley"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2020-01-30"
+last_action: "2020-06-29"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8e2356a5-da8d-4af0-b3d4-54cc93a9e924"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "abe9fc4ddeddfc6a29c198e4bfc650bab38d89ec80b68c07fcd4227c32446aee"
+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 861 (2019_20) — Motor vehicles; commercial carriers; amend certain definitions
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 1 of Title 40 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to identification and regulation of motor vehicles, so as to amend certain definitions relating to commercial carriers; 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 861/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/194396.pdf)
+2. **LC 34 5608/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/188929.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **163–2** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Dale Washburn — primary (person)
+- Houston Gaines — primary (person)
+- Jan Jones — primary (person)
+- Marcus Wiedower — primary (person)
+- Matt Barton — primary (person)
+- Micah Gravley — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-01-30** House Hopper
+- **2020-01-31** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2020-02-03** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2020-02-21** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-02-27** House Withdrawn, Recommitted `withdrawal, referral-committee`
+- **2020-03-02** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2020-03-02** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2020-03-03** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2020-06-18** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-06-19** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2020-06-20** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2020-06-20** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2020-06-25** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-06-29** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2020-06-29** Act 374 `executive-signature`
+- **2020-06-29** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8e2356a5-da8d-4af0-b3d4-54cc93a9e924`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+