---
type: "Bill"
title: "Special license plates; Georgia Beekeepers Association; 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, causes, agencies, funds, or nonprofit corporations, so as to establish a specialty license plate to benefit the Georgia Beekeepers Association; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; 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 671"
citation: "Georgia HB 671 (2017_18)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Emory Dunahoo", "James Epps", "Jimmy Pruett", "Kevin Cooke", "Timothy Barr", "Tom McCall"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 16
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2018-01-10"
last_action: "2018-05-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f064cb9d-0509-4b0b-9667-b9c45bc0a59e"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "2490fa4d7dc0368f4e7234e4c52a385271ea914fbd09d6afb6818605e9e2005f"
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 671 (2017_18) — Special license plates; Georgia Beekeepers Association; 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, causes, agencies, funds, or nonprofit corporations, so as to establish a specialty license plate to benefit the Georgia Beekeepers Association; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; 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 — **168–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Emory Dunahoo — primary (person)
- James Epps — primary (person)
- Jimmy Pruett — primary (person)
- Kevin Cooke — primary (person)
- Timothy Barr — primary (person)
- Tom McCall — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2018-01-10** House Hopper
- **2018-01-11** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2018-01-18** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2018-01-30** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-01** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2018-02-01** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2018-02-05** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-09** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-12** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2018-03-21** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2018-03-21** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2018-03-27** House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
- **2018-04-02** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2018-05-03** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-03** Act 368 `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-03** Effective Date

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f064cb9d-0509-4b0b-9667-b9c45bc0a59e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).