---
type: "Bill"
title: "Motorcycle Mobility Safety Act; enact"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 6 of Title 40 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the uniform rules of the road, so as to provide for the safe operation of a lightweight motorcycle or motor vehicle through an inoperative traffic-control signal; to repeal certain provisions relating to handlebars; to provide for a short title; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2015_16"
identifier: "HB 166"
citation: "Georgia HB 166 (2015_16)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alan Powell", "Ben Harbin", "Earnest Smith", "John Yates", "Margaret Kaiser"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2015-01-29"
last_action: "2016-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/53bf5975-0e71-4728-abd7-f5cf9ac67035"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "30032863eaf9eb6589adfd1133c0fd729cea61f8340467cbf6d9e1fbc1190f37"
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 166 (2015_16) — Motorcycle Mobility Safety Act; enact

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 6 of Title 40 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the uniform rules of the road, so as to provide for the safe operation of a lightweight motorcycle or motor vehicle through an inoperative traffic-control signal; to repeal certain provisions relating to handlebars; to provide for a short title; 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 166/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/162446.pdf)
2. **LC 41 0354/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/146334.pdf)
3. **LC 41 0669S/hcs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/158641.pdf)
4. **LC 41 0699S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/157033.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **166–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Alan Powell — primary (person)
- Ben Harbin — primary (person)
- Earnest Smith — primary (person)
- John Yates — primary (person)
- Margaret Kaiser — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2015-01-29** House Hopper
- **2015-02-02** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2015-02-03** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2016-02-10** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2016-02-24** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2016-02-24** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2016-02-25** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2016-03-10** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2016-03-11** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2016-03-22** Senate Tabled
- **2016-03-24** Senate Taken from Table
- **2016-03-24** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2016-03-24** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2016-03-30** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2016-04-26** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2016-04-26** Act 334 `executive-signature`
- **2016-07-01** Effective Date

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/53bf5975-0e71-4728-abd7-f5cf9ac67035`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).