---
type: "Bill"
title: "Motor vehicles; commercial carriers; amend certain definitions"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 1 of Title 40 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to identification and regulation of motor vehicles, so as to amend certain definitions relating to commercial carriers; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2019_20"
identifier: "HB 861"
citation: "Georgia HB 861 (2019_20)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dale Washburn", "Houston Gaines", "Jan Jones", "Marcus Wiedower", "Matt Barton", "Micah Gravley"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 16
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2020-01-30"
last_action: "2020-06-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8e2356a5-da8d-4af0-b3d4-54cc93a9e924"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "abe9fc4ddeddfc6a29c198e4bfc650bab38d89ec80b68c07fcd4227c32446aee"
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 861 (2019_20) — Motor vehicles; commercial carriers; amend certain definitions

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 1 of Title 40 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to identification and regulation of motor vehicles, so as to amend certain definitions relating to commercial carriers; to provide for an effective date; 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 861/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/194396.pdf)
2. **LC 34 5608/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/188929.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **163–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Dale Washburn — primary (person)
- Houston Gaines — primary (person)
- Jan Jones — primary (person)
- Marcus Wiedower — primary (person)
- Matt Barton — primary (person)
- Micah Gravley — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-30** House Hopper
- **2020-01-31** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2020-02-03** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2020-02-21** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-27** House Withdrawn, Recommitted `withdrawal, referral-committee`
- **2020-03-02** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2020-03-02** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2020-03-03** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2020-06-18** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-06-19** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2020-06-20** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2020-06-20** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2020-06-25** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2020-06-29** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-29** Act 374 `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-29** Effective Date

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8e2356a5-da8d-4af0-b3d4-54cc93a9e924`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).