SR8: SR8 Deputy Brandon Cunningham Memorial Intersection; Paulding County; dedicate

This resolution does not change any law. Instead, it directs the Georgia Department of Transportation to put up signs designating specific segments of the state highway system in honor or memory of named Georgians. Each numbered part of the resolution first lays out biographical background on a person (or, in one case, veterans generally) explaining why they are being honored, then the final section formally enacts each dedication. The honorees include a former state senator, a former state representative and mayor, local officials, coaches, business leaders, a slain 911 dispatcher, and others with ties to the affected counties. The resolution also directs the Secretary of the Senate to send copies of the resolution to the Department of Transportation and to the honorees or their families. No funding, penalties, or new legal requirements are created beyond the signage directive.

• Dedicates 21 separate named highway segments, bridges, intersections, or an interchange across the state to specific deceased or living Georgians described in the resolution's whereas clauses.
• Directs the Georgia Department of Transportation to erect and maintain appropriate signs marking each of the named dedications.
• Directs the Secretary of the Senate to distribute copies of the resolution to the Department of Transportation and to the honorees or their surviving families.
• Creates no new statutory requirements, funding, or penalties; it only assigns honorary names to existing state road infrastructure.

The Georgia Department of Transportation, which must install and maintain new signage, and the families or communities of the honorees, including those in Clayton, Fulton, Carroll, Baldwin, Appling, Banks, Chatham, Forsyth, Cook, Coffee, Gilmer, Cherokee, Dougherty, Monroe, Jasper, and Camden counties.

For residents of the affected counties, this means specific roads, bridges, and intersections will carry new honorary names commemorating local figures, from a longtime state senator to a slain 911 dispatcher. The change is symbolic and administrative, requiring signage but not altering how the roads are used, maintained, or funded.

• Part I dedicates a stretch of State Route 139/Riverdale Road in Clayton County as the Honorable Valencia Seay Highway.
• Part II dedicates an intersection in Fulton County as the Senator Vincent D. Fort Memorial Intersection.
• Part XIII honors United States military veterans generally, and the closing section dedicates the entire State Route 206 in Coffee County as Veterans Perimeter Road.
• The closing enactment section (Part XXII) lists each specific road, bridge, intersection, or interchange dedication with exact location descriptions, such as mile points or cross streets.
• The resolution directs the Department of Transportation to erect and maintain signs for all dedications listed.
• The resolution directs the Secretary of the Senate to send copies to the Department of Transportation and to the honorees or their families.

1. 2025-05-14Effective Date 2025-05-14
2. 2025-05-14Act 368
3. 2025-05-14Senate Date Signed by Governor (Senate)
4. 2025-04-10Senate Sent to Governor (Senate)
5. 2025-04-04Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub (Senate)
6. 2025-04-02House Passed/Adopted By Substitute (House)
7. 2025-04-02House Third Readers (House)
8. 2025-04-02House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute (House)

• Jason Anavitarte (R, SD-031)Primary sponsor
• Randy Robertson (R, SD-029)
• John Kennedy (R, SD-018)
• Steve Gooch (R, SD-051)
• John Albers (R, SD-056)
• Carden Summers (R, SD-013)
• Matt Brass (R, SD-006)
• Ed Setzler (R, SD-037)
• Max Burns (R, SD-023)
• Brandon Beach (R, SD-021)
• Frank Ginn (R, SD-047)
• Chuck Payne (R, SD-054)
• Blake Tillery (R, SD-019)
• Chuck Hufstetler (R, SD-052)
• Larry Walker (R, SD-020)
• Ricky Williams (R, SD-025)
• Marty Harbin (R, SD-016)
• Bill Cowsert (R, SD-046)
• Shawn Still (R, SD-048)
• Drew Echols (R, SD-049)
• Bo Hatchett (R, SD-050)
• Timothy Bearden (R, SD-030)
• Sam Watson (R, SD-011)
• Ben Watson (R, SD-001)
• Lee Anderson (R, SD-024)
• Kay Kirkpatrick (R, SD-032)
• Michael Rhett (D, SD-033)
• Jason Esteves (D, SD-035)
• Kenya Wicks (D, SD-034)
• Colton Moore (R, SD-053)
• Brian Prince (D, HD-132)

1. PassedSenate voteMarch 4, 2025

   49 yea, 0 nay (3 not voting, 4 absent)

   Adoption By Substitute: Senate Vote #137

2. PassedHouse voteApril 2, 2025

   168 yea, 0 nay (1 not voting, 11 absent)

   Adopt: House Vote #387

3. PassedSenate voteApril 4, 2025

   49 yea, 0 nay (5 not voting, 2 absent)

   Agree To House Substitute: Senate Vote #465

• road naming
• memorial highways
• Georgia Department of Transportation
• state honors
• local history