republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/hb-767.md

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Bill	Motor vehicles; add utility service vehicles to the "Spencer Pass Law"; provisions	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 add utility service vehicles to the "Spencer Pass Law"; to provide a procedure for passing stationary utility service vehicles; to provide for definitions; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	HB 767	Georgia HB 767 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Alan Powell Bill Hitchens Darlene Taylor Gloria Frazier Jesse Petrea Keisha Waites	5	16	1	2016-01-14	2016-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/1123ab65-5d19-46cc-921b-ea7406cb2966	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	b267068e0aa8bdeb387822a71fafbfaddc04e18cb5635d25691e5ab84bf596a1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 767 (2015_16) — Motor vehicles; add utility service vehicles to the "Spencer Pass Law"; provisions

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 add utility service vehicles to the "Spencer Pass Law"; to provide a procedure for passing stationary utility service vehicles; to provide for definitions; 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 39 0147 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB 767/AP* (committee substitute) — source
3. HB 767/FA (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 41 0592/a (committee substitute) — source
5. Sen ctee sub LC 41 0786S (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 158–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Alan Powell — primary (person)
• Bill Hitchens — primary (person)
• Darlene Taylor — primary (person)
• Gloria Frazier — primary (person)
• Jesse Petrea — primary (person)
• Keisha Waites — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-01-14 House Hopper
• 2016-01-15 House First Readers reading-1
• 2016-01-20 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2016-02-02 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-02-08 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2016-02-08 House Passed/Adopted As Amended passage
• 2016-02-09 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2016-03-08 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-03-10 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2016-03-11 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2016-03-11 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2016-03-22 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
• 2016-03-29 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2016-04-19 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2016-04-19 Act 326 executive-signature
• 2016-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1123ab65-5d19-46cc-921b-ea7406cb2966. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).