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type: "Bill"
title: "Specialty License Plate; honoring law enforcement; establish"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 40-2-86 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to special license plates promoting and supporting certain beneficial projects, causes, agencies, or nonprofit corporations, so as to establish a specialty license plate honoring law enforcement; to provide for related matters; to provide for compliance with constitutional requirements; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2017_18"
identifier: "SB 169"
citation: "Georgia SB 169 (2017_18)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ben Watson", "Blake Tillery", "Brandon Beach", "Butch Miller", "Chuck Hufstetler", "David Shafer", "Dean Burke", "Elena Parent", "Fran Millar", "Frank Ginn", "Freddie Sims", "Greg Kirk", "Harold Jones II", "Jesse Stone", "John Albers", "John Kennedy", "John Wilkinson", "Joshua McKoon", "Lee Anderson", "Michael Williams", "P. K. Martin IV", "Rick Jeffares", "Steve Gooch", "Steve Henson", "Tonya Anderson", "Tyler Harper", "Valencia Seay"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 15
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2017-02-14"
last_action: "2017-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/95cd6a9e-df1d-4e28-9f7d-0dd3155dee80"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "838e21a5d819873f10058f7d43b054c05def5a55ec2f2f1bf0e6f0ff95a8b4d1"
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 SB 169 (2017_18) — Specialty License Plate; honoring law enforcement; establish
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 40-2-86 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to special license plates promoting and supporting certain beneficial projects, causes, agencies, or nonprofit corporations, so as to establish a specialty license plate honoring law enforcement; to provide for related matters; to provide for compliance with constitutional requirements; 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 BY SUBSTITUTE — **540** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Ben Watson — primary (person)
- Blake Tillery — primary (person)
- Brandon Beach — primary (person)
- Butch Miller — primary (person)
- Chuck Hufstetler — primary (person)
- David Shafer — primary (person)
- Dean Burke — primary (person)
- Elena Parent — primary (person)
- Fran Millar — primary (person)
- Frank Ginn — primary (person)
- Freddie Sims — primary (person)
- Greg Kirk — primary (person)
- Harold Jones II — primary (person)
- Jesse Stone — primary (person)
- John Albers — primary (person)
- John Kennedy — primary (person)
- John Wilkinson — primary (person)
- Joshua McKoon — primary (person)
- Lee Anderson — primary (person)
- Michael Williams — primary (person)
- P. K. Martin IV — primary (person)
- Rick Jeffares — primary (person)
- Steve Gooch — primary (person)
- Steve Henson — primary (person)
- Tonya Anderson — primary (person)
- Tyler Harper — primary (person)
- Valencia Seay — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-02-14** Senate Hopper
- **2017-02-15** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-22** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-23** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2017-02-24** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2017-02-24** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2017-02-27** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2017-02-28** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2017-03-14** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-16** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2017-03-16** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2017-04-03** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2017-05-09** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2017-05-09** Act 245 `executive-signature`
- **2017-07-01** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/95cd6a9e-df1d-4e28-9f7d-0dd3155dee80`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).