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+type: "Bill"
+title: "City of McRae-Helena; create and incorporate new municipality; provisions"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to provide for the abolition of the current charters of the municipalities of the City of Helena and the City of McRae; to create and incorporate a new municipality under the name \"City of McRae-Helena, Georgia\"; to provide for the status, boundaries, and powers of the restructured government; to provide for the form, administration, and affairs of the restructured government; to provide for officers and employees, elections, courts, authorities, taxation, and finance; to provide for related matters; to provide for severability; to repeal certain local Acts; to provide for effective dates; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
+legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
+session: "2013_14"
+identifier: "HB 967"
+citation: "Georgia HB 967 (2013_14)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Jimmy Pruett"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2014-02-07"
+last_action: "2014-04-10"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/21c7978c-cba3-4a07-9dec-4bf89ac54ce9"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "3b6f0d088c0d9a75c7b7ad68c8444499e3418227c3d0af093ca4d5c861248428"
+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 HB 967 (2013_14) — City of McRae-Helena; create and incorporate new municipality; provisions
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to provide for the abolition of the current charters of the municipalities of the City of Helena and the City of McRae; to create and incorporate a new municipality under the name "City of McRae-Helena, Georgia"; to provide for the status, boundaries, and powers of the restructured government; to provide for the form, administration, and affairs of the restructured government; to provide for officers and employees, elections, courts, authorities, taxation, and finance; to provide for related matters; to provide for severability; to repeal certain local Acts; to provide for effective dates; 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. **HB 967/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/142579.pdf)
+2. **LC 28 7042/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/139308.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Local Calendar — **158–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Jimmy Pruett — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2014-02-07** House Hopper
+- **2014-02-10** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2014-02-11** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2014-02-25** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2014-02-25** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2014-02-25** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2014-02-26** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2014-03-04** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2014-03-04** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2014-03-25** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2014-04-10** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2014-04-10** Act 390 `executive-signature`
+- **2014-04-10** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/21c7978c-cba3-4a07-9dec-4bf89ac54ce9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
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