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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Motor vehicles; presentation of a driver's license in a certain electronic format; provisions"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 5 of Title 40 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to issuance, expiration, and renewal of drivers' licenses, so as to provide that presentation of a driver's license in a certain electronic format satisfies the requirement to possess a driver's license while operating a motor vehicle; to prohibit the compelling of a licensee to produce a wireless telecommunications device to a law enforcement officer; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
+legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
+session: "2025_26"
+identifier: "HB 296"
+citation: "Georgia HB 296 (2025_26)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["ELECTIONS", "GAME AND FISH", "MOTOR VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC", "REVENUE AND TAXATION"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Houston Gaines", "John Corbett", "Marcus Wiedower", "Scott Hilton", "Shaw Blackmon", "Trey Kelley"]
+version_count: 7
+action_count: 20
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2025-02-05"
+last_action: "2025-07-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b437eae0-3988-4474-804e-26d6d06a5d00"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "e6359cca3923957d829b67904282110d12f92bd59b83ef41b9fc5b0f1bcf4dd0"
+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 296 (2025_26) — Motor vehicles; presentation of a driver's license in a certain electronic format; provisions
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 5 of Title 40 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to issuance, expiration, and renewal of drivers' licenses, so as to provide that presentation of a driver's license in a certain electronic format satisfies the requirement to possess a driver's license while operating a motor vehicle; to prohibit the compelling of a licensee to produce a wireless telecommunications device to a law enforcement officer; 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.
+
+1. **HB 296/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/239322.pdf)
+2. **LC 39 4423/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/231498.pdf)
+3. **LC 39 4599S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/232052.pdf)
+4. **LC 39 4667S/hcs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/234787.pdf)
+5. **LC 39 4667S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/233779.pdf)
+6. **Sen Floor Amend 1 AM 50 0135** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/239237.pdf)
+7. **Sen Floor Amend 2 AM 39 0492** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/239243.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Senate Vote #482 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — **13–39** (fail) · upper
+- Senate Vote #481 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — **51–2** (pass) · upper
+- Senate Vote #483 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — **51–3** (pass) · upper
+- House Vote #448 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — **163–3** (pass) · lower
+- House Vote #124 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — **154–17** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Houston Gaines — primary (person)
+- John Corbett — primary (person)
+- Marcus Wiedower — primary (person)
+- Scott Hilton — primary (person)
+- Shaw Blackmon — primary (person)
+- Trey Kelley — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-02-05** House Hopper `introduction`
+- **2025-02-06** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2025-02-10** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2025-02-11** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-02-24** House Withdrawn, Recommitted `referral-committee, withdrawal`
+- **2025-02-26** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-03** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2025-03-03** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2025-03-04** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-11** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-13** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2025-04-02** Senate Tabled
+- **2025-04-04** Senate Taken from Table
+- **2025-04-04** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-04** Senate Passed/Adopted As Amended `passage`
+- **2025-04-04** House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
+- **2025-04-10** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-05-14** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2025-05-14** Act 256 `executive-signature`
+- **2025-07-01** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b437eae0-3988-4474-804e-26d6d06a5d00`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+