---
type: "Bill"
title: "Special license plates; Georgia Masonic Charities; 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 to benefit Georgia Masonic Charities; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; 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 815"
citation: "Georgia HB 815 (2017_18)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brooks Coleman", "Charles Martin", "Ron Stephens", "Terry England", "Wendell Willard"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 15
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2018-02-01"
last_action: "2018-05-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/35e2a1dc-440a-431b-b081-f6e8b3c24e96"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "551bb1eff90bc831d89bfd3959848ed7a2723ed3291e0c72b33f0ad272b04756"
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 815 (2017_18) — Special license plates; Georgia Masonic Charities; 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 to benefit Georgia Masonic Charities; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; 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 — **164–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Brooks Coleman — primary (person)
- Charles Martin — primary (person)
- Ron Stephens — primary (person)
- Terry England — primary (person)
- Wendell Willard — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-01** House Hopper
- **2018-02-05** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2018-02-06** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2018-02-12** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-23** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2018-02-23** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2018-02-26** 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`
- **2018-03-27** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2018-03-27** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2018-04-03** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2018-05-07** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-07** Act 438 `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-07** Effective Date

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/35e2a1dc-440a-431b-b081-f6e8b3c24e96`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).