republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2019-20/sb-25.md

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Bill	Rules of the Road; when driver of a vehicle need not stop upon meeting or passing a school bus; clarify	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 40-6-163 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to duty of driver of vehicle meeting or overtaking school bus, reporting of violations, and civil monetary penalty for violations captured by school bus camera, so as to clarify when the driver of a vehicle need not stop upon meeting or passing a school bus; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2019_20	SB 25	Georgia SB 25 (2019_20)	bill		enacted	Bill Heath	4	16	1	2019-01-16	2019-02-15	openstates	ocd-bill/ad84138a-142b-4762-b88c-cfb9e484df3f	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	00358b9412b046709776944ccda4b212c25407a497643a49cc1643083f8b598a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 25 (2019_20) — Rules of the Road; when driver of a vehicle need not stop upon meeting or passing a school bus; clarify

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 40-6-163 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to duty of driver of vehicle meeting or overtaking school bus, reporting of violations, and civil monetary penalty for violations captured by school bus camera, so as to clarify when the driver of a vehicle need not stop upon meeting or passing a school bus; 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. As introduced LC 41 1683 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 41 1720S (committee substitute) — source
4. SB 25/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — 55–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bill Heath — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-01-16 Senate Hopper
• 2019-01-17 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2019-02-05 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-02-06 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2019-02-07 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2019-02-07 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2019-02-08 House First Readers reading-1
• 2019-02-11 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2019-02-12 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-02-13 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2019-02-13 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2019-02-13 House Immediately Transmitted to Senate
• 2019-02-14 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2019-02-15 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2019-02-15 Act 1 executive-signature
• 2019-02-15 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ad84138a-142b-4762-b88c-cfb9e484df3f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).