---
type: "Bill"
title: "Motor vehicles and traffic; federal regulatory requirements; provide"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 1 of Title 40 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions of identifying and regulating motor vehicles, so as to provide for federal regulatory requirements; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2013_14"
identifier: "HB 753"
citation: "Georgia HB 753 (2013_14)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alan Powell", "Bill Hitchens"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 18
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2014-01-15"
last_action: "2014-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/62c81fda-026a-4323-9a98-1a7185870f7a"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "7824da97510e70ea916a0af6532995a300ea91f877abed8acac68e6c0967d01f"
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 753 (2013_14) — Motor vehicles and traffic; federal regulatory requirements; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 1 of Title 40 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions of identifying and regulating motor vehicles, so as to provide for federal regulatory requirements; 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 753/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/144807.pdf)
2. **LC 41 0129/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/137507.pdf)
3. **LC 41 0208S/hcs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/141192.pdf)
4. **LC 41 0208S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/140651.pdf)
5. **SCSFA to HB 753** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/144689.pdf)
6. **Sen ctee sub LC 41 0243S** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/143256.pdf)
7. **Sen floor amend 1 AM 41 0063** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/143836.pdf)
8. **Sen floor amend 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/144691.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **156–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Alan Powell — primary (person)
- Bill Hitchens — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2014-01-15** House Hopper
- **2014-01-16** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2014-01-17** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2014-02-20** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2014-02-24** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2014-02-24** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2014-02-25** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2014-03-12** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2014-03-12** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2014-03-18** Senate Tabled
- **2014-03-20** Senate Taken from Table
- **2014-03-20** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2014-03-20** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2014-03-20** House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
- **2014-03-27** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2014-04-29** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2014-04-29** Act 638 `executive-signature`
- **2014-07-01** Effective Date

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/62c81fda-026a-4323-9a98-1a7185870f7a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).