republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2023-24/hb-997.md

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Bill	Motor vehicles; require disqualification to operate a commercial motor vehicle upon receipt of notification from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration of a positive drug test	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 40-5-151 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to disqualification from driving and action required after suspending, revoking, or canceling license or nonresident privileges, so as to require disqualification to operate a commercial motor vehicle upon receipt of notification from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration of a positive drug test, an adulterated or substituted drug test, or a report of a refusal to submit to such test; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2023_24	HB 997	Georgia HB 997 (2023_24)	bill		enacted	Alan Powell Bill Hitchens Brian Prince Jason Ridley John Corbett	2	15	2	2024-01-23	2024-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/c6551478-e75d-485a-bf91-faa657f3477d	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	37f23a3d8ed471ed94b46f308692b3335a9f8c34a612a08e9616b11ab5c87f40	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 997 (2023_24) — Motor vehicles; require disqualification to operate a commercial motor vehicle upon receipt of notification from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration of a positive drug test

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 40-5-151 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to disqualification from driving and action required after suspending, revoking, or canceling license or nonresident privileges, so as to require disqualification to operate a commercial motor vehicle upon receipt of notification from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration of a positive drug test, an adulterated or substituted drug test, or a report of a refusal to submit to such test; 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 997/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 39 4096/a (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate Vote #679 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 45–6 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #467 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 162–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Alan Powell — primary (person)
• Bill Hitchens — primary (person)
• Brian Prince — primary (person)
• Jason Ridley — primary (person)
• John Corbett — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-23 House Hopper introduction
• 2024-01-24 House First Readers reading-1
• 2024-01-25 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2024-02-06 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-02-12 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2024-02-12 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2024-02-13 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2024-03-07 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-08 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2024-03-18 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2024-03-18 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2024-04-01 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-04-22 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2024-04-22 Act 402 executive-signature
• 2024-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c6551478-e75d-485a-bf91-faa657f3477d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).