---
type: "Bill"
title: "Motor vehicles; applicability of certain consumer protection laws to autonomous vehicles; provide"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 40-8-11 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to operational rules for autonomous vehicles, so as to provide for the applicability of certain consumer protection laws to autonomous vehicles; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2017_18"
identifier: "HB 717"
citation: "Georgia HB 717 (2017_18)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bert Reeves", "Christian Coomer", "Kevin Tanner", "Meagan Hanson", "Trey Kelley"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 16
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2018-01-19"
last_action: "2018-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5ef7a7f8-8b47-46c2-bb9e-f3f6d4aa214b"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "78b889eee425642161151afa26591fa54906407178d7bb3be612ccb12eae0de2"
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 717 (2017_18) — Motor vehicles; applicability of certain consumer protection laws to autonomous vehicles; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 40-8-11 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to operational rules for autonomous vehicles, so as to provide for the applicability of certain consumer protection laws to autonomous vehicles; 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.


## Votes

- PASSAGE — **162–3** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bert Reeves — primary (person)
- Christian Coomer — primary (person)
- Kevin Tanner — primary (person)
- Meagan Hanson — primary (person)
- Trey Kelley — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-19** House Hopper
- **2018-01-22** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2018-01-23** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2018-01-30** House Withdrawn, Recommitted `withdrawal, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-12** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-20** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2018-02-20** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2018-02-21** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-21** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-21** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2018-03-27** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2018-03-27** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2018-04-02** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2018-05-03** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-03** Act 331 `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/5ef7a7f8-8b47-46c2-bb9e-f3f6d4aa214b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).