republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2017-18/sb-169.md

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Bill	Specialty License Plate; honoring law enforcement; establish	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 and supporting certain beneficial projects, causes, agencies, or nonprofit corporations, so as to establish a specialty license plate honoring law enforcement; to provide for related matters; to provide for compliance with constitutional requirements; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2017_18	SB 169	Georgia SB 169 (2017_18)	bill		enacted	Ben Watson Blake Tillery Brandon Beach Butch Miller Chuck Hufstetler David Shafer Dean Burke Elena Parent Fran Millar Frank Ginn Freddie Sims Greg Kirk Harold Jones II Jesse Stone John Albers John Kennedy John Wilkinson Joshua McKoon Lee Anderson Michael Williams P. K. Martin IV Rick Jeffares Steve Gooch Steve Henson Tonya Anderson Tyler Harper Valencia Seay	0	15	1	2017-02-14	2017-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/95cd6a9e-df1d-4e28-9f7d-0dd3155dee80	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	838e21a5d819873f10058f7d43b054c05def5a55ec2f2f1bf0e6f0ff95a8b4d1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 169 (2017_18) — Specialty License Plate; honoring law enforcement; establish

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 and supporting certain beneficial projects, causes, agencies, or nonprofit corporations, so as to establish a specialty license plate honoring law enforcement; to provide for related matters; to provide for compliance 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.

Votes

• PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — 54–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ben Watson — primary (person)
• Blake Tillery — primary (person)
• Brandon Beach — primary (person)
• Butch Miller — primary (person)
• Chuck Hufstetler — primary (person)
• David Shafer — primary (person)
• Dean Burke — primary (person)
• Elena Parent — primary (person)
• Fran Millar — primary (person)
• Frank Ginn — primary (person)
• Freddie Sims — primary (person)
• Greg Kirk — primary (person)
• Harold Jones II — primary (person)
• Jesse Stone — primary (person)
• John Albers — primary (person)
• John Kennedy — primary (person)
• John Wilkinson — primary (person)
• Joshua McKoon — primary (person)
• Lee Anderson — primary (person)
• Michael Williams — primary (person)
• P. K. Martin IV — primary (person)
• Rick Jeffares — primary (person)
• Steve Gooch — primary (person)
• Steve Henson — primary (person)
• Tonya Anderson — primary (person)
• Tyler Harper — primary (person)
• Valencia Seay — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-02-14 Senate Hopper
• 2017-02-15 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2017-02-22 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-02-23 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2017-02-24 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2017-02-24 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2017-02-27 House First Readers reading-1
• 2017-02-28 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2017-03-14 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-03-16 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2017-03-16 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2017-04-03 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2017-05-09 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2017-05-09 Act 245 executive-signature
• 2017-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/95cd6a9e-df1d-4e28-9f7d-0dd3155dee80. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).