republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2025-26/sb-524.md

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Bill	License Plates; specialty license plate honoring Girl Scouts of Georgia; establish	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 40-2-86 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to license plates promoting or supporting certain agencies, funds, or nonprofit corporations with proceeds disbursed to the general fund and the agency, fund, or nonprofit corporation, so as to establish a specialty license plate honoring Girl Scouts of Georgia; to establish a specialty plate honoring the 250th anniversary of the United States of America's independence; to provide for related matters; to provide for compliance with constitutional requirements; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2025_26	SB 524	Georgia SB 524 (2025_26)	bill	MOTOR VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC	enacted	Billy Hickman Chuck Payne Elena Parent John Albers Kenya Wicks Larry Walker, III Marty Harbin Sonya Halpern Timothy Bearden	4	15	2	2026-02-18	2027-01-01	openstates	ocd-bill/7a867926-74bc-4979-a42c-c4c363acadf7	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	0b1fe2f89a1ea4065a32363e8ce267dbcd205fba2d577dcdf3cfc5845e8f7a77	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 524 (2025_26) — License Plates; specialty license plate honoring Girl Scouts of Georgia; establish

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 40-2-86 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to license plates promoting or supporting certain agencies, funds, or nonprofit corporations with proceeds disbursed to the general fund and the agency, fund, or nonprofit corporation, so as to establish a specialty license plate honoring Girl Scouts of Georgia; to establish a specialty plate honoring the 250th anniversary of the United States of America's independence; to provide for related matters; to provide for compliance with constitutional requirements; to provide for 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 4948 (committee substitute) — source
2. As Passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee Sub LC 39 4992S (committee substitute) — source
4. SB 524/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• House Vote #704 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 155–0 (pass) · lower
• Senate Vote #621 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 51–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Billy Hickman — primary (person)
• Chuck Payne — primary (person)
• Elena Parent — primary (person)
• John Albers — primary (person)
• Kenya Wicks — primary (person)
• Larry Walker, III — primary (person)
• Marty Harbin — primary (person)
• Sonya Halpern — primary (person)
• Timothy Bearden — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2026-02-18 Senate Hopper introduction
• 2026-02-19 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2026-02-26 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-03-03 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2026-03-04 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2026-03-04 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2026-03-06 House First Readers reading-1
• 2026-03-09 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2026-03-12 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-03-16 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2026-03-16 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2026-04-10 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2026-05-11 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2026-05-11 Act 517 executive-signature
• 2027-01-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7a867926-74bc-4979-a42c-c4c363acadf7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).