---
type: "Bill"
title: "Motor vehicles; issuance of veterans' driver's licenses; revise qualifications"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 40-5-36 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to veterans' licenses, honorary licenses, and other distinctive drivers' licenses, so as to revise qualifications for issuance of veterans' driver's licenses; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2021_22"
identifier: "HB 338"
citation: "Georgia HB 338 (2021_22)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Al Williams", "Buddy DeLoach", "Terry England"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-02-08"
last_action: "2021-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/572ea42c-301d-41eb-b738-47df5c5dbadf"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "83684c810ee4f32205df251248d657c684ba570021a06734f006207a8549da27"
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 338 (2021_22) — Motor vehicles; issuance of veterans' driver's licenses; revise qualifications

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 40-5-36 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to veterans' licenses, honorary licenses, and other distinctive drivers' licenses, so as to revise qualifications for issuance of veterans' driver's licenses; 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.

1. **HB 338/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/202039.pdf)
2. **LC 39 2859/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/196952.pdf)
3. **LC 39 2916S/hcs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/198978.pdf)
4. **LC 39 2916S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/198474.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **161–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Al Williams — primary (person)
- Buddy DeLoach — primary (person)
- Terry England — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-08** House Hopper
- **2021-02-09** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2021-02-10** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2021-02-23** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-26** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2021-02-26** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2021-03-01** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-23** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-23** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2021-03-29** Senate Tabled
- **2021-03-29** Senate Taken from Table
- **2021-03-29** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2021-03-29** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2021-04-06** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-21** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2021-04-21** Act 23 `executive-signature`
- **2021-07-01** Effective Date

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/572ea42c-301d-41eb-b738-47df5c5dbadf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).