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Bill	Driver's License; revise exemptions afforded to nonresidents issued to them in in home state/country	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 5 of Title 40 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to issuance, expiration, and renewal of licenses, so as to revise the exemptions afforded to nonresidents who have in their immediate possession a valid driver's license issued to them in their home state or country; to provide for certain presumptions of validity of a driver's license issued by the driver's licensing authority of a foreign county; to provide for exceptions; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	SB 320	Georgia SB 320 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Ben Watson Brandon Beach Butch Miller Dean Burke Donzella James Frank Ginn John Albers John Kennedy Michael Williams Mike Dugan Tommie Williams Tyler Harper William Jackson	8	16	1	2016-02-02	2017-01-01	openstates	ocd-bill/a7e8a931-b37d-4563-9fa2-620c1f2cadc1	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	d7c2ebf0694f14ccf18cb3e7b55a5ab61c1ffeea6a038a048ee51cf6dad74fc9	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 320 (2015_16) — Driver's License; revise exemptions afforded to nonresidents issued to them in in home state/country

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 5 of Title 40 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to issuance, expiration, and renewal of licenses, so as to revise the exemptions afforded to nonresidents who have in their immediate possession a valid driver's license issued to them in their home state or country; to provide for certain presumptions of validity of a driver's license issued by the driver's licensing authority of a foreign county; to provide for exceptions; 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. As introduced LC 41 0642 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 41 0701S (committee substitute) — source
4. Floor Amendment AM 41 0200 (committee substitute) — source
5. Floor amend 1 (committee substitute) — source
6. LC 41 0822S/hss (committee substitute) — source
7. SB 320/AP* (committee substitute) — source
8. SB 320/HCSFA (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — 51–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ben Watson — primary (person)
• Brandon Beach — primary (person)
• Butch Miller — primary (person)
• Dean Burke — primary (person)
• Donzella James — primary (person)
• Frank Ginn — primary (person)
• John Albers — primary (person)
• John Kennedy — primary (person)
• Michael Williams — primary (person)
• Mike Dugan — primary (person)
• Tommie Williams — primary (person)
• Tyler Harper — primary (person)
• William Jackson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-02 Senate Hopper
• 2016-02-03 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2016-02-09 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-02-10 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2016-02-16 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2016-02-16 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2016-02-17 House First Readers reading-1
• 2016-02-18 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2016-03-16 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-03-22 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2016-03-22 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2016-03-24 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2016-03-31 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2016-05-03 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2016-05-03 Act 573 executive-signature
• 2017-01-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a7e8a931-b37d-4563-9fa2-620c1f2cadc1. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).