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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Hazlehurst, City of; provide a new charter"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to provide a new charter for the City of Hazlehurst; to provide for severability; to provide for other matters relative to the foregoing; to provide a specific repealer; to provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
+legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
+session: "2015_16"
+identifier: "HB 637"
+citation: "Georgia HB 637 (2015_16)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Dominic LaRiccia", "Greg Morris", "Jimmy Pruett"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2015-03-19"
+last_action: "2015-07-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3c9929e4-c931-40e2-86b8-13bae25c1cfb"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "e456958b36dfcdcd301def00e81b0b716b03eae305d42e1355e1f0f60ee6fed0"
+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 637 (2015_16) — Hazlehurst, City of; provide a new charter
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to provide a new charter for the City of Hazlehurst; to provide for severability; to provide for other matters relative to the foregoing; to provide a specific repealer; to provide 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 637/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/152776.pdf)
+2. **LC 43 0137/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/151635.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Local Calendar Without HB 627 — **113–42** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Dominic LaRiccia — primary (person)
+- Greg Morris — primary (person)
+- Jimmy Pruett — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2015-03-19** House Hopper
+- **2015-03-20** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2015-03-23** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2015-03-24** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2015-03-24** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2015-03-24** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2015-03-25** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2015-03-26** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2015-03-26** 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 277 `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/3c9929e4-c931-40e2-86b8-13bae25c1cfb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+