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type: "Bill"
title: "Motor vehicles; commercial driver's license; provide requirements for issuance"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 40-5-147 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to requirements for issuance of commercial driver's license or instruction permit, administration of skills test by third party, waiver or exemption, and disqualification and notice, so as to provide for requirements for issuance of a commercial driver's license; to revise the length of validity of a commercial driver's instruction permit; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date and applicability; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2021_22"
identifier: "HB 169"
citation: "Georgia HB 169 (2021_22)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Clay Pirkle", "Jason Ridley", "John Corbett", "Martin Momtahan", "Mesha Mainor", "Sam Watson"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-01-28"
last_action: "2021-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0dbb5b58-75f4-4982-b64d-42269866d267"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "52d1ea9ab5e1faf1d36845df65b6d870aeb2a4e11639d2d482b1be77649e5610"
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 169 (2021_22) — Motor vehicles; commercial driver's license; provide requirements for issuance
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 40-5-147 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to requirements for issuance of commercial driver's license or instruction permit, administration of skills test by third party, waiver or exemption, and disqualification and notice, so as to provide for requirements for issuance of a commercial driver's license; to revise the length of validity of a commercial driver's instruction permit; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date and applicability; 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 169/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/200701.pdf)
2. **LC 39 2759/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/196231.pdf)
## Votes
- PASSAGE — **162–7** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Clay Pirkle — primary (person)
- Jason Ridley — primary (person)
- John Corbett — primary (person)
- Martin Momtahan — primary (person)
- Mesha Mainor — primary (person)
- Sam Watson — 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`
- **2021-02-09** 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`
- **2021-03-11** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-15** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2021-03-17** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2021-03-17** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2021-04-05** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2021-05-04** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2021-05-04** Act 180 `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/0dbb5b58-75f4-4982-b64d-42269866d267`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).