---
type: "Bill"
title: "Special license plates; Grady Health Foundation; provide"
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 beneficial projects or entities, so as to provide for a new special license plate for the Grady Health Foundation; to require a two-thirds' majority vote for passage in accordance with constitutional requirements; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2013_14"
identifier: "HB 881"
citation: "Georgia HB 881 (2013_14)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alan Powell", "Harry Geisinger", "Howard Mosby", "James Epps", "Pam Stephenson", "Pat Gardner"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 18
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2014-01-28"
last_action: "2014-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/59faccda-00e9-4d5b-9cbf-551e581f4f66"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "7c521b40c5fcac3614c41c31522a6a974cbe0e53ed1b17aed7a6e7ff6ee1211d"
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 881 (2013_14) — Special license plates; Grady Health Foundation; provide

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 beneficial projects or entities, so as to provide for a new special license plate for the Grady Health Foundation; to require a two-thirds' majority vote for passage in accordance 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.

1. **HB 881/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/144366.pdf)
2. **LC 40 0471/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/138495.pdf)
3. **SCSFA to HB 881** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/143709.pdf)
4. **Sen ctee sub LC 40 0616S** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/142746.pdf)
5. **Sen floor amend 1 AM 40 0118** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/143693.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **167–3** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Alan Powell — primary (person)
- Harry Geisinger — primary (person)
- Howard Mosby — primary (person)
- James Epps — primary (person)
- Pam Stephenson — primary (person)
- Pat Gardner — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2014-01-28** House Hopper
- **2014-01-31** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2014-02-03** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2014-02-24** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2014-02-26** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2014-02-26** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2014-03-03** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2014-03-07** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2014-03-10** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2014-03-13** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2014-03-13** Senate Tabled
- **2014-03-13** Senate Taken from Table
- **2014-03-13** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2014-03-18** House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
- **2014-03-26** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2014-04-14** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2014-04-14** Act 481 `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/59faccda-00e9-4d5b-9cbf-551e581f4f66`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).