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type: "Bill"
title: "Crimes and offenses; promoting illegal drag racing and laying drags; provide for offense"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 11 of Title 16 of the O.C.G.A., relating to offenses against public order, so as to provide for the offense of promoting illegal drag racing and laying drags; to provide for punishment; to amend Title 40 of the O.C.G.A., relating to motor vehicles and traffic, so as to provide for the offense of reckless stunt driving; to provide for report of conviction of such offenses by courts to the Department of Driver Services; 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 534"
citation: "Georgia HB 534 (2021_22)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bill Hitchens", "John Corbett", "Josh Bonner", "Martin Momtahan", "Matt Barton"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-02-18"
last_action: "2021-05-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a19b6d43-c91d-4a4e-b062-b21d029e29c8"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "11925425d1e177d571023c47fabb626e565fdcb51b43eed861c52a2fa0169261"
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 534 (2021_22) — Crimes and offenses; promoting illegal drag racing and laying drags; provide for offense
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 11 of Title 16 of the O.C.G.A., relating to offenses against public order, so as to provide for the offense of promoting illegal drag racing and laying drags; to provide for punishment; to amend Title 40 of the O.C.G.A., relating to motor vehicles and traffic, so as to provide for the offense of reckless stunt driving; to provide for report of conviction of such offenses by courts to the Department of Driver Services; 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 534/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/202046.pdf)
2. **LC 39 2897-EC/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/198114.pdf)
3. **LC 39 2986-ECS/hcs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/200032.pdf)
4. **LC 39 2986-ECS/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/199652.pdf)
## Votes
- PASSAGE — **130–39** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Bill Hitchens — primary (person)
- John Corbett — primary (person)
- Josh Bonner — primary (person)
- Martin Momtahan — primary (person)
- Matt Barton — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-02-18** House Hopper
- **2021-02-22** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2021-02-23** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2021-03-05** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-08** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2021-03-08** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2021-03-09** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-18** 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`
- **2021-05-03** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2021-05-03** Act 152 `executive-signature`
- **2021-05-03** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a19b6d43-c91d-4a4e-b062-b21d029e29c8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).