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Bill Motor Vehicles; autonomous vehicles from certain vehicle equipment requirements; exempt A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 8 of Title 40 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to equipment and inspection of motor vehicles, so as to exempt fully autonomous vehicles from certain vehicle equipment requirements; to provide for compliance; to remove requirement for use of strobe light while operating a low-speed vehicle; to provide for means of operation of vehicle brakes and parking brakes; to revise exhaust system requirements; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes. us/states/ga Georgia General Assembly 2021_22 SB 165 Georgia SB 165 (2021_22)
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Ben Watson
Brandon Beach
Burt Jones
Butch Miller
Frank Ginn
Greg Dolezal
Jeff Mullis
Kay Kirkpatrick
Steve Gooch
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Georgia SB 165 (2021_22) — Motor Vehicles; autonomous vehicles from certain vehicle equipment requirements; exempt

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 8 of Title 40 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to equipment and inspection of motor vehicles, so as to exempt fully autonomous vehicles from certain vehicle equipment requirements; to provide for compliance; to remove requirement for use of strobe light while operating a low-speed vehicle; to provide for means of operation of vehicle brakes and parking brakes; to revise exhaust system requirements; 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 39 2820 (committee substitute) — source
  2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
  3. Committee sub LC 39 2937S (committee substitute) — source
  4. Floor Amendment AM 43 0198 (committee substitute) — source
  5. Floor amend 1 AM 39 0321 (committee substitute) — source
  6. LC 39 3036S/hss (committee substitute) — source
  7. SB 165/AP* (committee substitute) — source
  8. SB 165/HCSFA (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • MOTION TO TABLE ALL BILLS ON THE RULES CALENDAR — 3217 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • Ben Watson — primary (person)
  • Brandon Beach — primary (person)
  • Burt Jones — primary (person)
  • Butch Miller — primary (person)
  • Frank Ginn — primary (person)
  • Greg Dolezal — primary (person)
  • Jeff Mullis — primary (person)
  • Kay Kirkpatrick — primary (person)
  • Steve Gooch — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2021-02-11 Senate Hopper
  • 2021-02-16 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
  • 2021-02-26 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
  • 2021-03-01 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
  • 2021-03-05 Senate Tabled
  • 2021-03-05 Senate Taken from Table
  • 2021-03-05 Senate Third Read reading-3
  • 2021-03-05 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
  • 2021-03-08 House First Readers reading-1
  • 2021-03-09 House Second Readers reading-2
  • 2021-03-17 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
  • 2021-03-25 House Third Readers reading-3
  • 2021-03-25 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
  • 2021-03-31 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub As Amended
  • 2021-03-31 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
  • 2021-04-07 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
  • 2021-05-04 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
  • 2021-05-04 Act 214 executive-signature
  • 2021-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a2533949-9fc6-47fe-a88c-055ab90c19eb. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).