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type: "Bill"
title: "Motor vehicles; use of mounts on windshields for the support of wireless telecommunications devices and stand-alone electronic devices under certain circumstances; allow"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 4 of Article 1 of Chapter 8 of Title 40 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to horns, exhaust systems, mirrors, windshields, tires, safety belts, and energy absorption systems of motor vehicles, so as to allow for the use of mounts on windshields of motor vehicles for the support of wireless telecommunications devices and stand-alone electronic devices under certain circumstances; to provide for an exception; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2021_22"
identifier: "HB 165"
citation: "Georgia HB 165 (2021_22)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bill Hitchens", "Eddie Lumsden", "Heath Clark", "Robert Pruitt", "Steven Meeks", "Timothy Barr"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 17
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-01-28"
last_action: "2021-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2fb2d477-63f6-483a-a44c-b6b07f2bf049"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "a2d2e52de6e6bb6b9e68ce47f6b492b35c76f6074cb2b4180643c1e14bf5ac85"
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 165 (2021_22) — Motor vehicles; use of mounts on windshields for the support of wireless telecommunications devices and stand-alone electronic devices under certain circumstances; allow
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 4 of Article 1 of Chapter 8 of Title 40 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to horns, exhaust systems, mirrors, windshields, tires, safety belts, and energy absorption systems of motor vehicles, so as to allow for the use of mounts on windshields of motor vehicles for the support of wireless telecommunications devices and stand-alone electronic devices under certain circumstances; to provide for an exception; 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 165/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/202034.pdf)
2. **LC 39 2775/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/196234.pdf)
## Votes
- PASSAGE — **166–0** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Bill Hitchens — primary (person)
- Eddie Lumsden — primary (person)
- Heath Clark — primary (person)
- Robert Pruitt — primary (person)
- Steven Meeks — primary (person)
- Timothy Barr — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-01-28** House Hopper
- **2021-01-29** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2021-02-01** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2021-02-16** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-18** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2021-02-18** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2021-02-22** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-22** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-22** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2021-03-29** Senate Tabled
- **2021-03-29** Senate Taken from Table
- **2021-03-29** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2021-03-29** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2021-04-06** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2021-05-04** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2021-05-04** Act 179 `executive-signature`
- **2021-07-01** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2fb2d477-63f6-483a-a44c-b6b07f2bf049`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).