republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2025-26/hb-208.md

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Bill	Special license plates; support state parks and historic sites; establish	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 40-2-86 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to license plates promoting or supporting certain agencies, funds, or nonprofit corporations with proceeds disbursed to the general fund and the agency, fund, or nonprofit corporation, so as to establish a specialty license plate supporting the state parks and historic sites division of the Department of Natural Resources; to establish a specialty license plate promoting conservation and enhancement of black bass populations; to provide for compliance with constitutional requirements; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2025_26	HB 208	Georgia HB 208 (2025_26)	bill	CONSERVATION AND NATURAL RESOURCES EDUCATION MILITARY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AND VETERANS AFFAIRS MOTOR VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC	enacted	James Burchett Jesse Petrea John Corbett Lynn Smith Ron Stephens Trey Rhodes	8	18	3	2025-01-30	2025-05-13	openstates	ocd-bill/e176de77-76c6-45f5-9ea3-770e67eda60d	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	bdce2e34f43ba81900e72223eb6da35bff6d9114652232ecfe2c7d641b83da51	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 208 (2025_26) — Special license plates; support state parks and historic sites; establish

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 40-2-86 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to license plates promoting or supporting certain agencies, funds, or nonprofit corporations with proceeds disbursed to the general fund and the agency, fund, or nonprofit corporation, so as to establish a specialty license plate supporting the state parks and historic sites division of the Department of Natural Resources; to establish a specialty license plate promoting conservation and enhancement of black bass populations; to provide for compliance with constitutional 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. HB 208/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 39 4538/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 39 4545S/hs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 39 4657S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
5. LC 39 4657S/hs (committee substitute) — source
6. SCSFA to HB 208 (committee substitute) — source
7. Sen Ctee sub LC 39 4766S (committee substitute) — source
8. Sen Floor Amend 1 AM 39 0460 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• House Vote #81 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 167–0 (pass) · lower
• Senate Vote #300 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 55–0 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #353 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 164–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• James Burchett — primary (person)
• Jesse Petrea — primary (person)
• John Corbett — primary (person)
• Lynn Smith — primary (person)
• Ron Stephens — primary (person)
• Trey Rhodes — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-30 House Hopper introduction
• 2025-02-03 House First Readers reading-1
• 2025-02-04 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2025-02-04 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-02-18 House Withdrawn, Recommitted referral-committee, withdrawal
• 2025-02-21 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-02-26 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2025-02-26 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2025-02-27 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2025-03-20 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-21 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2025-03-27 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2025-03-27 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2025-03-31 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
• 2025-04-08 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-05-13 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2025-05-13 Act 187 executive-signature
• 2025-05-13 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e176de77-76c6-45f5-9ea3-770e67eda60d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).