republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/hb-48.md

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Bill	Special license plates; include surviving spouse of a sibling of service member killed in action; extend eligibility	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 40-2-85.3 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to special license plates honoring family members of service members killed in action, so as to extend eligibility to apply for such license plates to include a surviving spouse of a sibling of the service member; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	HB 48	Georgia HB 48 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Brooks Coleman Sheila Jones Tom Rice	5	16	1	2015-01-13	2015-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/fd2948df-2718-4c0b-b206-5f5e4d807fb3	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	053753fe18ff5e2263cd70def9679e96da0e2c072edb17b425d01706abb32b7c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 48 (2015_16) — Special license plates; include surviving spouse of a sibling of service member killed in action; extend eligibility

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 40-2-85.3 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to special license plates honoring family members of service members killed in action, so as to extend eligibility to apply for such license plates to include a surviving spouse of a sibling of the service member; 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 48/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 39 0805/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 39 0981S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 39 0981S/hs (committee substitute) — source
5. Sen fl amend 1 AM 28 1441 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 168–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Brooks Coleman — primary (person)
• Sheila Jones — primary (person)
• Tom Rice — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-01-13 House Hopper
• 2015-01-14 House First Readers reading-1
• 2015-01-15 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
• 2015-03-24 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-03-25 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2015-03-31 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2015-03-31 Senate Passed/Adopted As Amended passage
• 2015-04-02 House Agreed Senate 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 104 executive-signature
• 2015-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/fd2948df-2718-4c0b-b206-5f5e4d807fb3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).