---
type: "Bill"
title: "Special license plates; marine habitat conservation; 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 certain beneficial projects and supporting certain worthy agencies, funds, or nonprofit corporations, so as to provide for a special license plate promoting marine habitat conservation; to provide for related matters; 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: "2015_16"
identifier: "HB 736"
citation: "Georgia HB 736 (2015_16)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Al Williams", "Alex Atwood", "Jeff Jones", "Jesse Petrea", "Joe Wilkinson", "Ron Stephens"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 18
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2016-01-12"
last_action: "2016-04-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/363e4980-9745-43da-a64b-f3d74bddf206"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "d5f07d26dfea01c56abdf1efc2d0732fee782ace26f41b81d618b9b95a3b558b"
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 736 (2015_16) — Special license plates; marine habitat conservation; 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 certain beneficial projects and supporting certain worthy agencies, funds, or nonprofit corporations, so as to provide for a special license plate promoting marine habitat conservation; to provide for related matters; 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. **Floor Amendment AM 39 0153** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/158857.pdf)
2. **Floor Amendment AM 41 0217** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/161960.pdf)
3. **Floor amend 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/160782.pdf)
4. **HB 736/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/162316.pdf)
5. **HB 736/CSFA** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/158962.pdf)
6. **LC 39 1318S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/158037.pdf)
7. **LC 40 0979/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/154346.pdf)
8. **SCSFA to HB736** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/160807.pdf)
9. **Sen Floor AM 2 AM 39 0166** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/160784.pdf)
10. **Sen ctee sub LC 41 0804S** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/159950.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **158–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Al Williams — primary (person)
- Alex Atwood — primary (person)
- Jeff Jones — primary (person)
- Jesse Petrea — primary (person)
- Joe Wilkinson — primary (person)
- Ron Stephens — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2016-01-12** House Hopper
- **2016-01-13** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2016-01-14** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2016-02-19** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2016-02-26** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2016-02-26** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2016-02-29** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2016-03-10** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2016-03-11** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2016-03-16** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2016-03-16** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2016-03-24** House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub As Amended
- **2016-03-24** Senate Disagreed House Amend or Sub
- **2016-03-24** House Receded from Amend or Sub
- **2016-04-04** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2016-04-26** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2016-04-26** Act 331 `executive-signature`
- **2016-04-26** Effective Date

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/363e4980-9745-43da-a64b-f3d74bddf206`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).