republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/hb-747.md

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Bill	Motor vehicles; safe operation of motor carriers and commercial motor vehicles; update reference date to federal regulations	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 40-1-8 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to safe operation of motor carriers and commercial motor vehicles, so as to update the reference date to federal regulations regarding the safe operation of motor carriers and commercial motor vehicles; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	HB 747	Georgia HB 747 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Alan Powell Bill Hitchens Chad Nimmer Robert Dickey Terry Rogers Tom Rice	2	15	1	2016-01-13	2016-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/12b2769d-1000-4602-8539-3b3a4e645618	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	10b5faa1be6bfcbc28f887175bf49039a44c64b24d227ba9527c7e36daa4a06a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 747 (2015_16) — Motor vehicles; safe operation of motor carriers and commercial motor vehicles; update reference date to federal regulations

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 40-1-8 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to safe operation of motor carriers and commercial motor vehicles, so as to update the reference date to federal regulations regarding the safe operation of motor carriers and commercial motor vehicles; 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 747/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 39 1119/a (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 161–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Alan Powell — primary (person)
• Bill Hitchens — primary (person)
• Chad Nimmer — primary (person)
• Robert Dickey — primary (person)
• Terry Rogers — primary (person)
• Tom Rice — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-01-13 House Hopper
• 2016-01-14 House First Readers reading-1
• 2016-01-15 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2016-02-02 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-02-04 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2016-02-04 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2016-02-08 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2016-02-23 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-02-24 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2016-03-14 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2016-03-14 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2016-03-28 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2016-04-26 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2016-04-26 Act 437 executive-signature
• 2016-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/12b2769d-1000-4602-8539-3b3a4e645618. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).