republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/hb-736.md

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Bill	Special license plates; marine habitat conservation; provide	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 40-2-86 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to special license plates promoting certain beneficial projects and supporting certain worthy agencies, funds, or nonprofit corporations, so as to provide for a special license plate promoting marine habitat conservation; to provide for related matters; to require a two-thirds' majority vote for passage in accordance with constitutional requirements; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	HB 736	Georgia HB 736 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Al Williams Alex Atwood Jeff Jones Jesse Petrea Joe Wilkinson Ron Stephens	10	18	1	2016-01-12	2016-04-26	openstates	ocd-bill/363e4980-9745-43da-a64b-f3d74bddf206	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	d5f07d26dfea01c56abdf1efc2d0732fee782ace26f41b81d618b9b95a3b558b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 736 (2015_16) — Special license plates; marine habitat conservation; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 40-2-86 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to special license plates promoting certain beneficial projects and supporting certain worthy agencies, funds, or nonprofit corporations, so as to provide for a special license plate promoting marine habitat conservation; to provide for related matters; to require a two-thirds' majority vote for passage in accordance with constitutional requirements; 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 39 0153 (committee substitute) — source
2. Floor Amendment AM 41 0217 (committee substitute) — source
3. Floor amend 1 (committee substitute) — source
4. HB 736/AP* (committee substitute) — source
5. HB 736/CSFA (committee substitute) — source
6. LC 39 1318S/hs (committee substitute) — source
7. LC 40 0979/a (committee substitute) — source
8. SCSFA to HB736 (committee substitute) — source
9. Sen Floor AM 2 AM 39 0166 (committee substitute) — source
10. Sen ctee sub LC 41 0804S (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 158–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Al Williams — primary (person)
• Alex Atwood — primary (person)
• Jeff Jones — primary (person)
• Jesse Petrea — primary (person)
• Joe Wilkinson — primary (person)
• Ron Stephens — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-01-12 House Hopper
• 2016-01-13 House First Readers reading-1
• 2016-01-14 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2016-02-19 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-02-26 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2016-02-26 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2016-02-29 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2016-03-10 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-03-11 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2016-03-16 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2016-03-16 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2016-03-24 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub As Amended
• 2016-03-24 Senate Disagreed House Amend or Sub
• 2016-03-24 House Receded from Amend or Sub
• 2016-04-04 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2016-04-26 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2016-04-26 Act 331 executive-signature
• 2016-04-26 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/363e4980-9745-43da-a64b-f3d74bddf206. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).