republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2025-26/sb-291.md

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Bill	Special License Plates; establish an "America First" specialty license plate	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 40-2-86.1 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to special license plates promoting or supporting certain worthy agencies, funds, or nonprofit corporations and qualified motor vehicles or drivers with proceeds deposited into the general fund, so as to establish an "America First" specialty license plate; to provide for conditions for the production of such license plates; to provide for discontinuing the manufacture of such license plates in certain instances; to provide for the disposition of funds to the general fund; to provide for related matters; to provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2025_26	SB 291	Georgia SB 291 (2025_26)	bill	MOTOR VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC	enacted	Ben Watson Bill Cowsert Billy Hickman Blake Tillery Bo Hatchett Brandon Beach Brian Strickland Carden Summers Chuck Hufstetler Chuck Payne Drew Echols Ed Setzler Frank Ginn Greg Dolezal Jason Anavitarte John F. Kennedy Larry Walker, III Lee Anderson Marty Harbin Max Burns Mike Hodges Randy Robertson Rick Williams Shawn Still Steve Gooch	7	17	5	2025-02-26	2026-01-01	openstates	ocd-bill/aebb0ed0-1d93-4cb3-a425-e2999663c7dd	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	05b4c94e2a45db0ec6e0aeacb2efdca9a6eaf528ce8003bd7d18e11d2ca58711	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 291 (2025_26) — Special License Plates; establish an "America First" specialty license plate

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 40-2-86.1 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to special license plates promoting or supporting certain worthy agencies, funds, or nonprofit corporations and qualified motor vehicles or drivers with proceeds deposited into the general fund, so as to establish an "America First" specialty license plate; to provide for conditions for the production of such license plates; to provide for discontinuing the manufacture of such license plates in certain instances; to provide for the disposition of funds to the general fund; to provide for related matters; to provide an effective date; 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 39 4643 (committee substitute) — source
2. As Passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 39 4711S (committee substitute) — source
4. Floor Amend 1 (committee substitute) — source
5. Floor Amend 1A (committee substitute) — source
6. LC 39 4743S/hss (committee substitute) — source
7. SB 291/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate Vote #190 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 24–32 (fail) · upper
• House Vote #393 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 95–68 (pass) · lower
• Senate Vote #189 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 34–22 (pass) · upper
• Senate Vote #191 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 33–23 (pass) · upper
• Senate Vote #472 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 33–21 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ben Watson — primary (person)
• Bill Cowsert — primary (person)
• Billy Hickman — primary (person)
• Blake Tillery — primary (person)
• Bo Hatchett — primary (person)
• Brandon Beach — primary (person)
• Brian Strickland — primary (person)
• Carden Summers — primary (person)
• Chuck Hufstetler — primary (person)
• Chuck Payne — primary (person)
• Drew Echols — primary (person)
• Ed Setzler — primary (person)
• Frank Ginn — primary (person)
• Greg Dolezal — primary (person)
• Jason Anavitarte — primary (person)
• John F. Kennedy — primary (person)
• Larry Walker, III — primary (person)
• Lee Anderson — primary (person)
• Marty Harbin — primary (person)
• Max Burns — primary (person)
• Mike Hodges — primary (person)
• Randy Robertson — primary (person)
• Rick Williams — primary (person)
• Shawn Still — primary (person)
• Steve Gooch — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-26 Senate Hopper introduction
• 2025-02-27 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2025-03-03 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-04 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2025-03-06 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2025-03-06 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2025-03-10 House First Readers reading-1
• 2025-03-11 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2025-03-11 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-02 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2025-04-02 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2025-04-02 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2025-04-04 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2025-04-10 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-05-14 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2025-05-14 Act 301 executive-signature
• 2026-01-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/aebb0ed0-1d93-4cb3-a425-e2999663c7dd. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).