republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/hb-225.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Local government; all for-hire drivers obtain a for-hire license endorsement before driving for hire; provide	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Titles 36 and 40 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to local government and motor vehicles and traffic, respectively, so as to provide for definitions; to require all for-hire drivers to obtain a for-hire license endorsement before driving for hire; to require that all for-hire drivers have certain insurance; to provide for penalties; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	HB 225	Georgia HB 225 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Alan Powell Bill Hitchens Emory Dunahoo John Carson Rick Jasperse Roger Rutledge	7	19	1	2015-02-04	2015-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/3f184ef8-a77a-4633-b4eb-f4e95d50e9aa	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	e11dfb2d074f2cff351203202feef2c748a00e69aa21c33ec3cca39e9b9412d2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 225 (2015_16) — Local government; all for-hire drivers obtain a for-hire license endorsement before driving for hire; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Titles 36 and 40 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to local government and motor vehicles and traffic, respectively, so as to provide for definitions; to require all for-hire drivers to obtain a for-hire license endorsement before driving for hire; to require that all for-hire drivers have certain insurance; to provide for penalties; 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. Floor Amendment - AM 28 1440 (committee substitute) — source
2. Floor Amendment AM 28 1391 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB 225/AP* (committee substitute) — source
4. HB 225/CSFA (committee substitute) — source
5. LC 28 7438/a (committee substitute) — source
6. LC 36 2752S/hs (committee substitute) — source
7. Sen ctee sub LC 43 0160S (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 160–10 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Alan Powell — primary (person)
• Bill Hitchens — primary (person)
• Emory Dunahoo — primary (person)
• John Carson — primary (person)
• Rick Jasperse — primary (person)
• Roger Rutledge — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-04 House Hopper
• 2015-02-09 House First Readers reading-1
• 2015-02-10 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2015-03-03 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-03-11 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2015-03-11 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2015-03-13 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2015-03-20 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-03-23 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2015-03-24 Senate Recommitted referral-committee
• 2015-03-25 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-03-26 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2015-03-26 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2015-03-31 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub As Amended
• 2015-04-02 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2015-04-14 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2015-05-06 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2015-05-06 Act 195 executive-signature
• 2015-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3f184ef8-a77a-4633-b4eb-f4e95d50e9aa. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).