---
type: "Bill"
title: "Special license plates; Georgia Forestry Foundation; 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, agencies, funds, or nonprofit corporations, so as to establish a specialty license plate honoring Georgia's working forests and the Georgia Forestry Foundation; to provide for related matters; 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 695"
citation: "Georgia HB 695 (2017_18)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chad Nimmer", "James Epps", "Jason Shaw", "Robert Dickey", "Terry England", "Tom McCall"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 17
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2018-01-18"
last_action: "2018-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/26c74f0f-a027-4d7e-bd69-ad14e454fe9a"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "883bfd762bc6fc4915015779fa2c24a327b968021d963916608c790062da6031"
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 695 (2017_18) — Special license plates; Georgia Forestry Foundation; 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, agencies, funds, or nonprofit corporations, so as to establish a specialty license plate honoring Georgia's working forests and the Georgia Forestry Foundation; to provide for related matters; 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 — **169–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Chad Nimmer — primary (person)
- James Epps — primary (person)
- Jason Shaw — primary (person)
- Robert Dickey — primary (person)
- Terry England — primary (person)
- Tom McCall — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-18** House Hopper
- **2018-01-19** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2018-01-22** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2018-01-30** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-22** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2018-02-22** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2018-02-23** 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 As Amended `passage`
- **2018-03-29** House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub As Amended
- **2018-03-29** Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
- **2018-04-06** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2018-05-08** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-08** Act 464 `executive-signature`
- **2018-07-01** Effective Date

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/26c74f0f-a027-4d7e-bd69-ad14e454fe9a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).