republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2025-26/hb-296.md

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Bill	Motor vehicles; presentation of a driver's license in a certain electronic format; provisions	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 5 of Title 40 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to issuance, expiration, and renewal of drivers' licenses, so as to provide that presentation of a driver's license in a certain electronic format satisfies the requirement to possess a driver's license while operating a motor vehicle; to prohibit the compelling of a licensee to produce a wireless telecommunications device to a law enforcement officer; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2025_26	HB 296	Georgia HB 296 (2025_26)	bill	ELECTIONS GAME AND FISH MOTOR VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC REVENUE AND TAXATION	enacted	Houston Gaines John Corbett Marcus Wiedower Scott Hilton Shaw Blackmon Trey Kelley	7	20	5	2025-02-05	2025-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/b437eae0-3988-4474-804e-26d6d06a5d00	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	e6359cca3923957d829b67904282110d12f92bd59b83ef41b9fc5b0f1bcf4dd0	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 296 (2025_26) — Motor vehicles; presentation of a driver's license in a certain electronic format; provisions

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 5 of Title 40 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to issuance, expiration, and renewal of drivers' licenses, so as to provide that presentation of a driver's license in a certain electronic format satisfies the requirement to possess a driver's license while operating a motor vehicle; to prohibit the compelling of a licensee to produce a wireless telecommunications device to a law enforcement officer; 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 296/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 39 4423/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 39 4599S/hs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 39 4667S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
5. LC 39 4667S/hs (committee substitute) — source
6. Sen Floor Amend 1 AM 50 0135 (committee substitute) — source
7. Sen Floor Amend 2 AM 39 0492 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate Vote #482 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 13–39 (fail) · upper
• Senate Vote #481 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 51–2 (pass) · upper
• Senate Vote #483 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 51–3 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #448 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 163–3 (pass) · lower
• House Vote #124 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 154–17 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Houston Gaines — primary (person)
• John Corbett — primary (person)
• Marcus Wiedower — primary (person)
• Scott Hilton — primary (person)
• Shaw Blackmon — primary (person)
• Trey Kelley — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-05 House Hopper introduction
• 2025-02-06 House First Readers reading-1
• 2025-02-10 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2025-02-11 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-02-24 House Withdrawn, Recommitted referral-committee, withdrawal
• 2025-02-26 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-03 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2025-03-03 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2025-03-04 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2025-03-11 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-13 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2025-04-02 Senate Tabled
• 2025-04-04 Senate Taken from Table
• 2025-04-04 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2025-04-04 Senate Passed/Adopted As Amended passage
• 2025-04-04 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
• 2025-04-10 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-05-14 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2025-05-14 Act 256 executive-signature
• 2025-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b437eae0-3988-4474-804e-26d6d06a5d00. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).