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Bill Motor vehicles; automated traffic enforcement safety devices in school zones; provisions A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 8 of Chapter 6 of Title 40 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to school buses, so as to revise the enforcement of civil monetary penalties; to provide for procedures and enforcement; to provide for dedication of fees collected from local civil monetary penalties; to amend Article 2 of Chapter 14 of Title 40 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to speed detection devices, so as to provide for automated traffic enforcement safety devices in school zones; to provide for the operation of automated traffic enforcement safety devices; to provide for automated traffic enforcement safety device testing exceptions and procedures; to provide for automated traffic enforcement safety device use warning signs; safety devices; to provide for rules, regulations, and terms of use for automated traffic enforcement safety devices; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes. us/states/ga Georgia General Assembly 2017_18 HB 978 Georgia HB 978 (2017_18)
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Christian Coomer
John Corbett
Kasey Carpenter
Scott Holcomb
Trey Rhodes
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Georgia HB 978 (2017_18) — Motor vehicles; automated traffic enforcement safety devices in school zones; provisions

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 8 of Chapter 6 of Title 40 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to school buses, so as to revise the enforcement of civil monetary penalties; to provide for procedures and enforcement; to provide for dedication of fees collected from local civil monetary penalties; to amend Article 2 of Chapter 14 of Title 40 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to speed detection devices, so as to provide for automated traffic enforcement safety devices in school zones; to provide for the operation of automated traffic enforcement safety devices; to provide for automated traffic enforcement safety device testing exceptions and procedures; to provide for automated traffic enforcement safety device use warning signs; safety devices; to provide for rules, regulations, and terms of use for automated traffic enforcement safety devices; 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 — 9476 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • Chad Nimmer — primary (person)
  • Christian Coomer — primary (person)
  • John Corbett — primary (person)
  • Kasey Carpenter — primary (person)
  • Scott Holcomb — primary (person)
  • Trey Rhodes — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2018-02-21 House Hopper
  • 2018-02-21 House First Readers reading-1
  • 2018-02-22 House Second Readers reading-2
  • 2018-02-28 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
  • 2018-02-28 House Third Readers reading-3
  • 2018-02-28 House Passed/Adopted passage
  • 2018-03-01 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
  • 2018-03-23 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
  • 2018-03-23 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
  • 2018-03-27 Senate Tabled
  • 2018-03-29 Senate Taken from Table
  • 2018-03-29 Senate Third Read reading-3
  • 2018-03-29 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
  • 2018-03-29 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
  • 2018-04-05 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
  • 2018-05-08 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
  • 2018-05-08 Act 545 executive-signature
  • 2018-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/31247873-327d-426d-9697-147b2f6fa1e1. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).