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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Stonecrest, City of; provide for a charter"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to incorporate the City of Stonecrest in DeKalb County; to provide for a charter for the City of Stonecrest; to provide for incorporation, boundaries, and powers of the city; to provide for severability; 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: "SB 208"
+citation: "Georgia SB 208 (2015_16)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Emanuel Jones", "Gail Davenport", "Gloria Butler", "Ronald Ramsey, Sr.", "Steve Henson"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 20
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2015-03-05"
+last_action: "2016-04-21"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0542b00d-fa62-409d-9bab-1b6e5238aa25"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "300ef2332cc946d411154056f8f250bfa60c437e59b2c450a3b00200849304dd"
+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 SB 208 (2015_16) — Stonecrest, City of; provide for a charter
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to incorporate the City of Stonecrest in DeKalb County; to provide for a charter for the City of Stonecrest; to provide for incorporation, boundaries, and powers of the city; to provide for severability; 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. **As introduced LC 28 7584ER** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/150390.pdf)
+2. **LC 28 7858ERS/hss** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/156487.pdf)
+3. **LC 28 8043ERS/hss** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/159898.pdf)
+4. **SB 208 ad** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/151345.pdf)
+5. **SB 208/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/162357.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- MOTION TO TABLE — **36–18** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Emanuel Jones — primary (person)
+- Gail Davenport — primary (person)
+- Gloria Butler — primary (person)
+- Ronald Ramsey, Sr. — primary (person)
+- Steve Henson — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2015-03-05** Senate Hopper
+- **2015-03-05** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2015-03-13** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2015-03-13** Senate Tabled
+- **2015-03-24** Senate Taken from Table
+- **2015-03-24** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2015-03-24** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2015-03-24** Senate Transmitted House
+- **2015-03-25** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2015-03-26** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2016-02-04** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2016-03-02** House Withdrawn, Recommitted `referral-committee, withdrawal`
+- **2016-03-10** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2016-03-16** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2016-03-16** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2016-03-24** Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
+- **2016-03-31** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2016-04-21** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2016-04-21** Act 328 `executive-signature`
+- **2016-04-21** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0542b00d-fa62-409d-9bab-1b6e5238aa25`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+