---
type: "Bill"
title: "Specialty license plates; promote conservation of waterfowl populations and their habitats; 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 promote the conservation and enhancement of waterfowl populations and their habitats; 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 784"
citation: "Georgia HB 784 (2017_18)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chad Nimmer", "David Knight", "Jason Ridley", "Matt Dubnik", "Trey Rhodes"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 15
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2018-01-30"
last_action: "2019-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d46e4e0f-6490-4115-aed0-68b366f798dd"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "6788f268b9718be93195d2676b360508478744425684e3698ed5c41f138cbfd4"
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 784 (2017_18) — Specialty license plates; promote conservation of waterfowl populations and their habitats; 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 promote the conservation and enhancement of waterfowl populations and their habitats; 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 — **166–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Chad Nimmer — primary (person)
- David Knight — primary (person)
- Jason Ridley — primary (person)
- Matt Dubnik — primary (person)
- Trey Rhodes — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-30** House Hopper
- **2018-01-31** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2018-02-01** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2018-02-12** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-23** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2018-02-23** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2018-02-26** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-07** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-09** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2018-03-14** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2018-03-14** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2018-04-03** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2018-05-03** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-03** Act 371 `executive-signature`
- **2019-07-01** Effective Date

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d46e4e0f-6490-4115-aed0-68b366f798dd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).