republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2013-14/hb-774.md

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Bill	Highways, bridges and ferries; require annual submission of State-wide Strategic Transportation progress report; provisions	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 32 of the O.C.G.A., relating to highways, bridges, and ferries, so as to require the annual submission of a State-wide Strategic Transportation Plan progress report; to provide for an increase to limitations of counties and municipalities for negotiating contracts involving public roads; to amend Title 40 of the O.C.G.A., relating to motor vehicles, so as to remove the requirement of maintaining certain records by the Department of Driver Services; to provide for additional meanings for certain traffic signals; to provide for an exception to the requirement to stop a vehicle when approaching an inoperative traffic signal; to provide for an increase to maximum lawful speed limits; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2013_14	HB 774	Georgia HB 774 (2013_14)	bill		enacted	Al Williams Chad Nimmer James Epps Jay Roberts John Deffenbaugh Sam Watson	5	16	1	2014-01-17	2014-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/7010b1a6-2103-486d-a97a-0e9a67e3747d	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	14e5092cc5da8269c23a1211ea8f84e5be6422304dbc43ecdabf2bcf4d348aa6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 774 (2013_14) — Highways, bridges and ferries; require annual submission of State-wide Strategic Transportation progress report; provisions

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 32 of the O.C.G.A., relating to highways, bridges, and ferries, so as to require the annual submission of a State-wide Strategic Transportation Plan progress report; to provide for an increase to limitations of counties and municipalities for negotiating contracts involving public roads; to amend Title 40 of the O.C.G.A., relating to motor vehicles, so as to remove the requirement of maintaining certain records by the Department of Driver Services; to provide for additional meanings for certain traffic signals; to provide for an exception to the requirement to stop a vehicle when approaching an inoperative traffic signal; to provide for an increase to maximum lawful speed limits; 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 774/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 39 0526/a (committee substitute) — source
3. SCSFA to HB 774 (committee substitute) — source
4. Sen ctee sub LC 39 0620S (committee substitute) — source
5. Sen floor amend 1 AM 39 0062 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 157–7 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Al Williams — primary (person)
• Chad Nimmer — primary (person)
• James Epps — primary (person)
• Jay Roberts — primary (person)
• John Deffenbaugh — primary (person)
• Sam Watson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2014-01-17 House Hopper
• 2014-01-21 House First Readers reading-1
• 2014-01-22 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2014-01-24 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2014-02-03 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2014-02-03 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2014-02-04 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2014-02-11 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2014-02-17 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2014-03-05 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2014-03-05 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2014-03-11 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
• 2014-03-24 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2014-04-29 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2014-04-29 Act 665 executive-signature
• 2014-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7010b1a6-2103-486d-a97a-0e9a67e3747d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).