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type: "Bill"
title: "Motor vehicles fair practices; restrictions on ownership, operation, or control of dealerships by manufacturers and franchisors; provide exception"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 5 of Article 22 of Chapter 1 of Title 10 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to motor vehicle fair practices, so as to provide for an exception to restrictions on the ownership, operation, or control of dealerships by manufacturers and franchisors; 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 393"
citation: "Georgia HB 393 (2015_16)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Buzz Brockway", "Charles Martin", "David Stover", "Heath Clark", "Howard Maxwell", "Mike Dudgeon"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 15
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2015-02-18"
last_action: "2015-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/074d935c-8f8d-472c-9945-4eab64b02d9c"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "fc669370ddcf8a415c893ddcb50fd0a5a9636bffe17a8f36608e3131eb85ba04"
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 393 (2015_16) — Motor vehicles fair practices; restrictions on ownership, operation, or control of dealerships by manufacturers and franchisors; provide exception
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 5 of Article 22 of Chapter 1 of Title 10 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to motor vehicle fair practices, so as to provide for an exception to restrictions on the ownership, operation, or control of dealerships by manufacturers and franchisors; 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 393/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/152539.pdf)
2. **LC 39 0924/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/148431.pdf)
3. **LC 39 1022S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/150647.pdf)
4. **LC 39 1028S rules committee sub** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/151052.pdf)
5. **LC 39 1028S/rcs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/151332.pdf)
6. **Sen fl am 1 to HCS LC 39 1028S** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/152312.pdf)
7. **Sen fl am 2 to HCS LC 39 1028S** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/152328.pdf)
## Votes
- PASSAGE — **1703** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Buzz Brockway — primary (person)
- Charles Martin — primary (person)
- David Stover — primary (person)
- Heath Clark — primary (person)
- Howard Maxwell — primary (person)
- Mike Dudgeon — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2015-02-18** House Hopper
- **2015-02-19** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2015-02-20** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2015-03-09** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-03-13** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2015-03-13** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2015-03-18** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-23** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-03-24** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2015-03-25** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2015-03-25** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2015-04-06** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2015-05-06** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2015-05-06** Act 159 `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/074d935c-8f8d-472c-9945-4eab64b02d9c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).