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type: "Bill"
title: "Motor vehicles; initial two-year registration period for certain vehicles; provide"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 2 of Title 40 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to registration and licensing of motor vehicles, so as to provide for an initial two-year registration period for certain vehicles; to provide for certain fees; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2015_16"
identifier: "HB 147"
citation: "Georgia HB 147 (2015_16)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alan Powell", "Allen Peake", "David Knight", "Matt Hatchett"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 15
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2015-01-28"
last_action: "2015-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c513b1cc-e891-4ea3-acf8-9d87bfb294a3"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "181460c5af7e3ab071822541d8900672579958c69eb46ad087ec0812179e6097"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ga"]
---
# Georgia HB 147 (2015_16) — Motor vehicles; initial two-year registration period for certain vehicles; provide
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 2 of Title 40 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to registration and licensing of motor vehicles, so as to provide for an initial two-year registration period for certain vehicles; to provide for certain fees; 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 147/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/153468.pdf)
2. **LC 39 0829/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/146198.pdf)
3. **LC 39 0959S/hcs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/149785.pdf)
4. **LC 39 0959S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/149089.pdf)
## Votes
- PASSAGE — **1680** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Alan Powell — primary (person)
- Allen Peake — primary (person)
- David Knight — primary (person)
- Matt Hatchett — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2015-01-28** House Hopper
- **2015-01-29** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2015-02-02** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2015-02-24** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-03-03** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2015-03-03** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2015-03-04** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-24** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-03-25** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2015-03-31** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2015-03-31** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2015-04-07** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2015-05-06** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2015-05-06** Act 115 `executive-signature`
- **2015-07-01** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c513b1cc-e891-4ea3-acf8-9d87bfb294a3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).