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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Waycross, City of; change corporate limits"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act providing a new charter for the City of Waycross, approved August 17, 1909 (Ga. L. 1909, p. 1456), as amended, so as to change the corporate limits of such city; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
+legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
+session: "2015_16"
+identifier: "HB 523"
+citation: "Georgia HB 523 (2015_16)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Chad Nimmer"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2015-03-02"
+last_action: "2015-07-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c7a5c072-6bb7-4024-bac9-0d0ad2ea1db5"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "84136a8ebc398f856b868dcb94ab787d745169056aa5e07679d0b63d665922de"
+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 523 (2015_16) — Waycross, City of; change corporate limits
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act providing a new charter for the City of Waycross, approved August 17, 1909 (Ga. L. 1909, p. 1456), as amended, so as to change the corporate limits of such city; 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 523/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/151607.pdf)
+2. **LC 21 3701/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/149650.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Local Calendar — **165–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Chad Nimmer — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2015-03-02** House Hopper
+- **2015-03-03** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2015-03-04** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2015-03-11** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2015-03-11** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2015-03-11** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2015-03-13** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2015-03-18** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2015-03-18** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2015-03-23** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2015-03-23** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2015-03-23** Act 11 `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/c7a5c072-6bb7-4024-bac9-0d0ad2ea1db5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+