republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/hb-393.md

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Bill	Motor vehicles fair practices; restrictions on ownership, operation, or control of dealerships by manufacturers and franchisors; provide exception	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 5 of Article 22 of Chapter 1 of Title 10 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to motor vehicle fair practices, so as to provide for an exception to restrictions on the ownership, operation, or control of dealerships by manufacturers and franchisors; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	HB 393	Georgia HB 393 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Buzz Brockway Charles Martin David Stover Heath Clark Howard Maxwell Mike Dudgeon	7	15	1	2015-02-18	2015-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/074d935c-8f8d-472c-9945-4eab64b02d9c	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	fc669370ddcf8a415c893ddcb50fd0a5a9636bffe17a8f36608e3131eb85ba04	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 393 (2015_16) — Motor vehicles fair practices; restrictions on ownership, operation, or control of dealerships by manufacturers and franchisors; provide exception

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 5 of Article 22 of Chapter 1 of Title 10 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to motor vehicle fair practices, so as to provide for an exception to restrictions on the ownership, operation, or control of dealerships by manufacturers and franchisors; 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 393/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 39 0924/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 39 1022S/hs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 39 1028S rules committee sub (committee substitute) — source
5. LC 39 1028S/rcs (committee substitute) — source
6. Sen fl am 1 to HCS LC 39 1028S (committee substitute) — source
7. Sen fl am 2 to HCS LC 39 1028S (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 170–3 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Buzz Brockway — primary (person)
• Charles Martin — primary (person)
• David Stover — primary (person)
• Heath Clark — primary (person)
• Howard Maxwell — primary (person)
• Mike Dudgeon — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-18 House Hopper
• 2015-02-19 House First Readers reading-1
• 2015-02-20 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2015-03-09 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-03-13 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2015-03-13 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2015-03-18 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2015-03-23 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-03-24 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2015-03-25 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2015-03-25 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2015-04-06 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2015-05-06 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2015-05-06 Act 159 executive-signature
• 2015-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/074d935c-8f8d-472c-9945-4eab64b02d9c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).