---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Property; unauthorized vehicular traffic; provide closure"
description: "A RESOLUTION providing for the closure of certain state property to unauthorized vehicular traffic; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2017_18"
identifier: "SR 537"
citation: "Georgia SR 537 (2017_18)"
classification: ["resolution"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bill Cowsert", "Brandon Beach", "David Shafer", "John Albers", "John Kennedy", "Steve Gooch"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 15
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2017-03-24"
last_action: "2018-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/810a8271-601b-4ab8-8652-830be6ef6dde"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "28f6a5521396d7740ecec55c72328369d4598c0a5692d9dfb1b36c99d34e5d08"
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 SR 537 (2017_18) — State Property; unauthorized vehicular traffic; provide closure

A RESOLUTION providing for the closure of certain state property to unauthorized vehicular traffic; and for other purposes.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.


## Votes

- ADOPTION BY SUBSTITUTE — **49–3** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bill Cowsert — primary (person)
- Brandon Beach — primary (person)
- David Shafer — primary (person)
- John Albers — primary (person)
- John Kennedy — primary (person)
- Steve Gooch — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-03-24** Senate Hopper
- **2017-03-28** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-21** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-22** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2018-02-28** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2018-02-28** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2018-03-01** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2018-03-05** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2018-03-19** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-23** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2018-03-23** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2018-04-05** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2018-05-08** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-08** Act 542 `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/810a8271-601b-4ab8-8652-830be6ef6dde`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).