SR 7: State Highway System; dedicate certain portions

This resolution formally dedicates specific segments of Georgia's state highway system to the memory or honor of named individuals and families. Each of the 27 parts before the operative section tells the life story of the person being honored, from war veterans and physicians to civil rights leaders, business owners, and a Georgia Department of Transportation worker killed on the job. The final part of the resolution lists the actual dedications: naming a stretch of State Route 145 in Franklin County for Dr. Robert F. Sullivan, a bridge on State Route 133 in Worth County for Lary Jack Moree, an interchange in Chatham County for Rev. Dr. Hosea Williams and Rep. Juanita T. Williams, and two dozen other roads, bridges, intersections, interchanges, and roundabouts across the state. The resolution directs the Department of Transportation to erect and maintain signs marking each dedication and directs the Secretary of the Senate to send copies to the named families.

• Dedicates 28 separate road facilities (highways, bridges, intersections, interchanges, and roundabouts) across many Georgia counties to specific named individuals or families.
• Directs the Georgia Department of Transportation to erect and maintain signs marking each of the 28 dedications.
• Directs the Secretary of the Senate to distribute copies of the resolution to the Department of Transportation and to the honored families or individuals.
• Creates no new state funding, regulatory requirement, or penalty; it only assigns honorary names to existing state highway infrastructure.

The Georgia Department of Transportation, which must install and maintain the new signage, and the families and individuals named in the resolution, who receive the honorary designations. Drivers in Franklin, Worth, Cobb, Forsyth, Fulton, Chatham, Bleckley, Fayette, Walker, Carroll, Newton, Muscogee, Floyd, Walton, and Barrow counties will see the new road names on signage.

The practical effect is limited to new highway signage bearing the honorees' names at the specified locations; no laws, funding levels, or traffic rules change. For Georgians in the affected counties, it means visible public recognition of local figures, veterans, and public servants along roads they already use.

• Part XXVIII contains the operative dedications, naming specific state routes, bridges, intersections, interchanges, and roundabouts after each honoree listed in Parts I through XXVII.
• Requires the Department of Transportation to erect and maintain appropriate signs for each of the 28 named road facilities.
• Requires the Secretary of the Senate to distribute copies of the resolution to the Department of Transportation and to the honorees' families or the individuals themselves.
• Each numbered Part (I-XXVII) provides biographical background explaining why a particular person or family was chosen, but carries no independent legal effect beyond the final enacting section.

1. 2025-05-14Effective Date
2. 2025-05-14Act 366
3. 2025-05-14Senate Date Signed by Governor (Senate)
4. 2025-04-07Senate Sent to Governor (Senate)
5. 2025-03-31Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub (Senate)
6. 2025-02-24House Passed/Adopted By Substitute (House)
7. 2025-02-24House Third Readers (House)
8. 2025-02-21House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute (House)

• Greg Dolezal (R, SD-27)Primary sponsor
• Rick Jasperse (R, HD-11)

1. PassedSenate voteFebruary 3, 2025

   52 yea, 0 nay (3 not voting, 1 excused)

   ADOPTION: Senate Vote #19

2. PassedHouse voteFebruary 24, 2025

   174 yea, 0 nay (1 not voting, 5 excused)

   ADOPT: House Vote #78

3. PassedSenate voteMarch 31, 2025

   50 yea, 0 nay (6 not voting, 0 excused)

   AGREE TO HOUSE SUBSTITUTE: Senate Vote #359

• highway dedications
• memorial roads
• Georgia Department of Transportation
• veterans recognition
• state highway system