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Bill Courts; additional penalty for violation of traffic laws or ordinances under Joshua's Law; extend sunset A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 15-21-179 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to additional penalty for violation of traffic laws or ordinances, so as to extend the sunset of the additional penalty for violation of traffic laws or ordinances under "Joshua's Law"; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes. us/states/ga Georgia General Assembly 2019_20 HB 226 Georgia HB 226 (2019_20)
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Dominic LaRiccia
Jodi Lott
Terry Rogers
Tom McCall
2 15 1 2019-02-08 2019-07-01 openstates ocd-bill/3b27d941-851f-405f-a412-b22324874b52 http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl e8bb11167124269c06183d2dcb8f3902160e9a39b7cce26427ca809a84f26556 2026-07-01 https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump 2026-07-06 reported
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Georgia HB 226 (2019_20) — Courts; additional penalty for violation of traffic laws or ordinances under Joshua's Law; extend sunset

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 15-21-179 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to additional penalty for violation of traffic laws or ordinances, so as to extend the sunset of the additional penalty for violation of traffic laws or ordinances under "Joshua's Law"; 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. HB 226/AP* (committee substitute) — source
  2. LC 41 1766-EC/a (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • PASSAGE — 1628 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • Bert Reeves — primary (person)
  • Dominic LaRiccia — primary (person)
  • Jodi Lott — primary (person)
  • Terry Rogers — primary (person)
  • Tom McCall — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2019-02-08 House Hopper
  • 2019-02-11 House First Readers reading-1
  • 2019-02-12 House Second Readers reading-2
  • 2019-02-19 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
  • 2019-02-25 House Third Readers reading-3
  • 2019-02-25 House Passed/Adopted passage
  • 2019-02-26 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
  • 2019-03-14 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
  • 2019-03-18 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
  • 2019-03-21 Senate Third Read reading-3
  • 2019-03-21 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
  • 2019-04-04 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
  • 2019-05-09 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
  • 2019-05-09 Act 312 executive-signature
  • 2019-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3b27d941-851f-405f-a412-b22324874b52. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).