---
type: "Bill"
title: "Highways, bridges and ferries; require annual submission of State-wide Strategic Transportation progress report; provisions"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 32 of the O.C.G.A., relating to highways, bridges, and ferries, so as to require the annual submission of a State-wide Strategic Transportation Plan progress report; to provide for an increase to limitations of counties and municipalities for negotiating contracts involving public roads; to amend Title 40 of the O.C.G.A., relating to motor vehicles, so as to remove the requirement of maintaining certain records by the Department of Driver Services; to provide for additional meanings for certain traffic signals; to provide for an exception to the requirement to stop a vehicle when approaching an inoperative traffic signal; to provide for an increase to maximum lawful speed limits; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2013_14"
identifier: "HB 774"
citation: "Georgia HB 774 (2013_14)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Al Williams", "Chad Nimmer", "James Epps", "Jay Roberts", "John Deffenbaugh", "Sam Watson"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 16
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2014-01-17"
last_action: "2014-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7010b1a6-2103-486d-a97a-0e9a67e3747d"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "14e5092cc5da8269c23a1211ea8f84e5be6422304dbc43ecdabf2bcf4d348aa6"
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 774 (2013_14) — Highways, bridges and ferries; require annual submission of State-wide Strategic Transportation progress report; provisions

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 32 of the O.C.G.A., relating to highways, bridges, and ferries, so as to require the annual submission of a State-wide Strategic Transportation Plan progress report; to provide for an increase to limitations of counties and municipalities for negotiating contracts involving public roads; to amend Title 40 of the O.C.G.A., relating to motor vehicles, so as to remove the requirement of maintaining certain records by the Department of Driver Services; to provide for additional meanings for certain traffic signals; to provide for an exception to the requirement to stop a vehicle when approaching an inoperative traffic signal; to provide for an increase to maximum lawful speed limits; 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 774/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/143203.pdf)
2. **LC 39 0526/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/137623.pdf)
3. **SCSFA to HB 774** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/142478.pdf)
4. **Sen ctee sub LC 39 0620S** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/139704.pdf)
5. **Sen floor amend 1 AM 39 0062** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/142463.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **157–7** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Al Williams — primary (person)
- Chad Nimmer — primary (person)
- James Epps — primary (person)
- Jay Roberts — primary (person)
- John Deffenbaugh — primary (person)
- Sam Watson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2014-01-17** House Hopper
- **2014-01-21** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2014-01-22** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2014-01-24** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2014-02-03** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2014-02-03** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2014-02-04** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2014-02-11** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2014-02-17** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2014-03-05** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2014-03-05** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2014-03-11** House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
- **2014-03-24** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2014-04-29** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2014-04-29** Act 665 `executive-signature`
- **2014-07-01** Effective Date

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7010b1a6-2103-486d-a97a-0e9a67e3747d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).