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type: "Bill"
title: "License Plates; specialty license plate benefitting the Georgia Veterans Service Foundation; establish"
description: "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 benefitting the Georgia Veterans Service Foundation; to provide for related matters; to provide for compliance with constitutional requirements; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2025_26"
identifier: "SB 76"
citation: "Georgia SB 76 (2025_26)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["MOTOR VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blake Tillery", "Brian Strickland", "Carden Summers", "Chuck Hufstetler", "Chuck Payne", "Clint Dixon", "Drew Echols", "Ed Setzler", "Kay Kirkpatrick", "Kenya Wicks", "Matt Brass"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 17
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-02-03"
last_action: "2027-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3d256136-437d-42b7-aa0b-16f51028fdc4"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "7d829341ea95e0d66c14e6c39095aa65c0565fce995f50bffbbdc2c4578a1014"
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 SB 76 (2025_26) — License Plates; specialty license plate benefitting the Georgia Veterans Service Foundation; 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 benefitting the Georgia Veterans Service Foundation; to provide for related matters; to provide for compliance with constitutional requirements; 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 4441** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/231015.pdf)
2. **As Passed Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/232479.pdf)
3. **Committee Sub LC 39 4593S** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/231981.pdf)
4. **LC 39 5114S/hss** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/247299.pdf)
5. **LC 39 5134S/hrcs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/248701.pdf)
6. **SB 76/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/249147.pdf)
7. **Sen Floor Amend 1 AM 61 0051** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/249019.pdf)
## Votes
- Senate Vote #970 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — **530** (pass) · upper
- House Vote #839 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — **1682** (pass) · lower
- House Vote #870 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — **1682** (pass) · lower
- Senate Vote #52 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — **520** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Blake Tillery — primary (person)
- Brian Strickland — primary (person)
- Carden Summers — primary (person)
- Chuck Hufstetler — primary (person)
- Chuck Payne — primary (person)
- Clint Dixon — primary (person)
- Drew Echols — primary (person)
- Ed Setzler — primary (person)
- Kay Kirkpatrick — primary (person)
- Kenya Wicks — primary (person)
- Matt Brass — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-02-03** Senate Hopper `introduction`
- **2025-02-04** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-11** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-12** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2025-02-13** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2025-02-13** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2025-02-18** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2025-02-19** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2026-03-25** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-04-02** Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub As Amended
- **2026-04-02** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2026-04-02** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2026-04-02** House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
- **2026-04-10** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2026-05-11** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2026-05-11** Act 485 `executive-signature`
- **2027-07-01** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3d256136-437d-42b7-aa0b-16f51028fdc4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).