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Bill Law enforcement; retaining license plate data obtained from automated license plate recognition systems beyond certain periods; prohibit A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 1 of Title 35 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions regarding law enforcement officers and agencies, so as to prohibit law enforcement from retaining license plate data obtained from automated license plate recognition systems beyond a certain period; to provide for definitions; to provide for the exchange of data obtained from license plate recognition systems by law enforcement; to provide for criminal penalties for misuse of captured license plate data; to provide for policies; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes. us/states/ga Georgia General Assembly 2017_18 HB 79 Georgia HB 79 (2017_18)
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Buzz Brockway
John Pezold
Michael Caldwell
Rick Jasperse
Scot Turner
0 17 1 2017-01-23 2018-07-01 openstates ocd-bill/0997fe07-3bf0-421f-ab52-b1f3cba67f76 http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl 7aace0e001f3a6a23b950adc43d94d3d736af6e983cb90acf76fe316931e5ec2 2026-07-01 https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump 2026-07-06 reported
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Georgia HB 79 (2017_18) — Law enforcement; retaining license plate data obtained from automated license plate recognition systems beyond certain periods; prohibit

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 1 of Title 35 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions regarding law enforcement officers and agencies, so as to prohibit law enforcement from retaining license plate data obtained from automated license plate recognition systems beyond a certain period; to provide for definitions; to provide for the exchange of data obtained from license plate recognition systems by law enforcement; to provide for criminal penalties for misuse of captured license plate data; to provide for policies; 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.

Votes

  • PASSAGE — 1692 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • Alan Powell — primary (person)
  • Buzz Brockway — primary (person)
  • John Pezold — primary (person)
  • Michael Caldwell — primary (person)
  • Rick Jasperse — primary (person)
  • Scot Turner — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2017-01-23 House Hopper
  • 2017-01-24 House First Readers reading-1
  • 2017-01-25 House Second Readers reading-2
  • 2017-02-27 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
  • 2017-03-30 House Withdrawn, Recommitted withdrawal, referral-committee
  • 2018-02-05 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
  • 2018-02-13 House Third Readers reading-3
  • 2018-02-13 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
  • 2018-02-14 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
  • 2018-03-07 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
  • 2018-03-09 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
  • 2018-03-12 Senate Third Read reading-3
  • 2018-03-12 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
  • 2018-04-02 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
  • 2018-05-08 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
  • 2018-05-08 Act 452 executive-signature
  • 2018-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0997fe07-3bf0-421f-ab52-b1f3cba67f76. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).