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type: "Bill"
title: "Motor vehicles; automated traffic enforcement safety devices in school zones; provisions"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 8 of Chapter 6 of Title 40 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to school buses, so as to revise the enforcement of civil monetary penalties; to provide for procedures and enforcement; to provide for dedication of fees collected from local civil monetary penalties; to amend Article 2 of Chapter 14 of Title 40 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to speed detection devices, so as to provide for automated traffic enforcement safety devices in school zones; to provide for the operation of automated traffic enforcement safety devices; to provide for automated traffic enforcement safety device testing exceptions and procedures; to provide for automated traffic enforcement safety device use warning signs; safety devices; to provide for rules, regulations, and terms of use for automated traffic enforcement safety devices; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2017_18"
identifier: "HB 978"
citation: "Georgia HB 978 (2017_18)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chad Nimmer", "Christian Coomer", "John Corbett", "Kasey Carpenter", "Scott Holcomb", "Trey Rhodes"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 18
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2018-02-21"
last_action: "2018-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/31247873-327d-426d-9697-147b2f6fa1e1"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "7ebea5f2c8c10f67342d02e1080d1507e75868e411f350965344fc303c3b60e8"
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 978 (2017_18) — Motor vehicles; automated traffic enforcement safety devices in school zones; provisions
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 8 of Chapter 6 of Title 40 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to school buses, so as to revise the enforcement of civil monetary penalties; to provide for procedures and enforcement; to provide for dedication of fees collected from local civil monetary penalties; to amend Article 2 of Chapter 14 of Title 40 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to speed detection devices, so as to provide for automated traffic enforcement safety devices in school zones; to provide for the operation of automated traffic enforcement safety devices; to provide for automated traffic enforcement safety device testing exceptions and procedures; to provide for automated traffic enforcement safety device use warning signs; safety devices; to provide for rules, regulations, and terms of use for automated traffic enforcement safety devices; 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.
## Votes
- PASSAGE — **9476** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Chad Nimmer — primary (person)
- Christian Coomer — primary (person)
- John Corbett — primary (person)
- Kasey Carpenter — primary (person)
- Scott Holcomb — primary (person)
- Trey Rhodes — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-02-21** House Hopper
- **2018-02-21** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2018-02-22** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2018-02-28** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-28** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2018-02-28** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2018-03-01** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-23** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-23** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2018-03-27** Senate Tabled
- **2018-03-29** Senate Taken from Table
- **2018-03-29** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2018-03-29** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2018-03-29** House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
- **2018-04-05** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2018-05-08** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-08** Act 545 `executive-signature`
- **2018-07-01** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/31247873-327d-426d-9697-147b2f6fa1e1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).