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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Rome, City of; residency qualifications for members of the governing authority; change"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act creating a new charter for the City of Rome, approved August 19, 1918 (Ga. L. 1918, p. 813), as amended, particularly by an Act approved March 16, 1983 (Ga. L. 1983, p. 4188), an Ordinance adopted by the Rome City Commission June 15, 1987 (Ga. L. 1988, p. 5404), an Ordinance adopted by the Rome City Commission August 4, 1997 (Ga. L. 1998, p. 4849), and an Ordinance adopted by the Rome City Commission September 3, 2002 (Ga. L. 2004, p. 4756), so as to change qualifications for members of the governing authority to include residency in the ward in which they seek office; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
+legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
+session: "2015_16"
+identifier: "HB 1136"
+citation: "Georgia HB 1136 (2015_16)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Christian Coomer", "Eddie Lumsden", "Katie Dempsey"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2016-03-08"
+last_action: "2016-05-03"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c7ddb34b-2603-4ae6-889c-d9084b54e6ea"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "f519b7a7e385a2f8d6ba883699b0feba225093cde9ff8b965edb874207279b3a"
+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 1136 (2015_16) — Rome, City of; residency qualifications for members of the governing authority; change
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act creating a new charter for the City of Rome, approved August 19, 1918 (Ga. L. 1918, p. 813), as amended, particularly by an Act approved March 16, 1983 (Ga. L. 1983, p. 4188), an Ordinance adopted by the Rome City Commission June 15, 1987 (Ga. L. 1988, p. 5404), an Ordinance adopted by the Rome City Commission August 4, 1997 (Ga. L. 1998, p. 4849), and an Ordinance adopted by the Rome City Commission September 3, 2002 (Ga. L. 2004, p. 4756), so as to change qualifications for members of the governing authority to include residency in the ward in which they seek office; to provide for related matters; 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 1136/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/162102.pdf)
+2. **LC 44 0097/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/159682.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Local Calendar — **160–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Christian Coomer — primary (person)
+- Eddie Lumsden — primary (person)
+- Katie Dempsey — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2016-03-08** House Hopper
+- **2016-03-10** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2016-03-11** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2016-03-14** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2016-03-14** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2016-03-14** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2016-03-14** House Immediately Transmitted to Senate
+- **2016-03-15** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2016-03-22** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2016-03-22** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2016-03-29** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2016-05-03** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2016-05-03** Act 587 `executive-signature`
+- **2016-05-03** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c7ddb34b-2603-4ae6-889c-d9084b54e6ea`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+