---
type: "Bill"
title: "Motor vehicles; filing of certificates of title by dealers; provide"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 40-3-33 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to transfer of vehicle to or from a dealer, records to be kept by dealers, and electronic filing, so as to provide for the filing of certificates of title by dealers; to provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2017_18"
identifier: "HB 761"
citation: "Georgia HB 761 (2017_18)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alan Powell", "Brett Harrell", "Jason Ridley", "John Corbett", "John Meadows", "Jon Burns"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 16
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2018-01-29"
last_action: "2018-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/959d9c02-8d93-4077-a3c2-cfa0b128ef76"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "e1a2ba727aadaf5c1cd320c1fe5833a835dc0f5963440f179602db428d9982e9"
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 761 (2017_18) — Motor vehicles; filing of certificates of title by dealers; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 40-3-33 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to transfer of vehicle to or from a dealer, records to be kept by dealers, and electronic filing, so as to provide for the filing of certificates of title by dealers; to provide 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.


## Votes

- PASSAGE — **160–5** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Alan Powell — primary (person)
- Brett Harrell — primary (person)
- Jason Ridley — primary (person)
- John Corbett — primary (person)
- John Meadows — primary (person)
- Jon Burns — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-29** House Hopper
- **2018-01-30** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2018-01-31** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2018-02-21** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-26** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2018-02-26** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2018-02-28** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-14** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-15** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2018-03-27** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2018-03-27** Senate Passed/Adopted As Amended `passage`
- **2018-03-29** House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
- **2018-04-05** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2018-05-08** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-08** Act 546 `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-08** Effective Date

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/959d9c02-8d93-4077-a3c2-cfa0b128ef76`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).