republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/hb-579.md

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Bill	Motor vehicles; operation of certain vehicles upon highways when used in connection with agricultural pursuits; provide	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 6 of Title 40 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions regarding uniform rules of the road, so as to provide for the operation of certain vehicles upon the highways when used in connection with agricultural pursuits; to provide for conditions; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	HB 579	Georgia HB 579 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Darlene Taylor Jay Roberts Kevin Cooke Robert Dickey Terry England Tom McCall	8	18	1	2015-03-09	2016-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/d1dd6327-c999-46e7-a355-24f2899d9553	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	9f796e4b584cfe35b4e32a268986d9ce2955f2757f3d1e3087251b7c9b50663c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 579 (2015_16) — Motor vehicles; operation of certain vehicles upon highways when used in connection with agricultural pursuits; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 6 of Title 40 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions regarding uniform rules of the road, so as to provide for the operation of certain vehicles upon the highways when used in connection with agricultural pursuits; to provide for conditions; 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 579/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 40 0898/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 40 1041S/hs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 40 1119S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
5. LC 40 1119S/hs (committee substitute) — source
6. Senate Floor AM 1 (committee substitute) — source
7. Senate Floor AM 2 (committee substitute) — source
8. Senate Floor AM 3 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 163–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Darlene Taylor — primary (person)
• Jay Roberts — primary (person)
• Kevin Cooke — primary (person)
• Robert Dickey — primary (person)
• Terry England — primary (person)
• Tom McCall — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-03-09 House Hopper
• 2015-03-11 House First Readers reading-1
• 2015-03-13 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2016-01-28 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-02-04 House Withdrawn, Recommitted referral-committee, withdrawal
• 2016-02-17 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-02-19 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2016-02-19 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2016-02-22 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2016-03-08 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-03-10 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2016-03-16 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2016-03-16 Senate Passed/Adopted As Amended passage
• 2016-03-22 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
• 2016-03-29 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2016-04-26 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2016-04-26 Act 425 executive-signature
• 2016-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d1dd6327-c999-46e7-a355-24f2899d9553. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).