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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Americus, City of; provide for a city manager; provisions"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act providing a new charter for the City of Americus, approved April 13, 1992 (Ga. L. 1992, p. 5985), as amended, so as to provide for a city manager; to provide for appointment, qualifications, terms, removal, and vacancies; to provide for duties, powers, and responsibilities; to provide for appointment of a city clerk and finance director; to provide for related matters; to provide for applicability; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
+legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
+session: "2015_16"
+identifier: "HB 425"
+citation: "Georgia HB 425 (2015_16)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Mike Cheokas"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2015-02-19"
+last_action: "2015-07-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5c061103-fec6-4923-ba70-07607244eb60"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "69d77b1b80ee0a714c7160d446b0d3f1f3368b0685bf0328a00f7b47e9f32daf"
+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 425 (2015_16) — Americus, City of; provide for a city manager; provisions
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act providing a new charter for the City of Americus, approved April 13, 1992 (Ga. L. 1992, p. 5985), as amended, so as to provide for a city manager; to provide for appointment, qualifications, terms, removal, and vacancies; to provide for duties, powers, and responsibilities; to provide for appointment of a city clerk and finance director; to provide for related matters; to provide for applicability; to provide for an effective date; 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 425/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/149975.pdf)
+2. **LC 40 0778/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/148671.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Local Calendar — **160–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Mike Cheokas — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2015-02-19** House Hopper
+- **2015-02-20** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2015-02-23** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2015-02-25** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2015-02-25** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2015-02-25** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2015-02-26** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2015-03-03** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2015-03-03** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2015-04-06** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2015-05-12** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2015-05-12** Act 215 `executive-signature`
+- **2015-07-01** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5c061103-fec6-4923-ba70-07607244eb60`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+