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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Skidaway Island, City of; incorporate"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to incorporate the City of Skidaway Island; to provide for a charter for the City of Skidaway Island; to provide for incorporation, boundaries, and powers of the city; to provide for a governing authority of such city and the powers, duties, authority, election, terms, method of filling vacancies, compensation, qualifications, prohibitions, and removal from office relative to members of such governing authority; to provide for related matters; to provide for a referendum; to provide for contingent effective dates; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
+legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
+session: "2017_18"
+identifier: "HB 618"
+citation: "Georgia HB 618 (2017_18)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Jesse Petrea"]
+version_count: 0
+action_count: 18
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2017-03-20"
+last_action: "2018-05-07"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/02b7cc58-1ac6-436e-8911-eec28a716470"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "2616d85dadd555a5e5e8e80ab872b7a6b2553e9159c1692026cc1658c9f4960f"
+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 618 (2017_18) — Skidaway Island, City of; incorporate
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to incorporate the City of Skidaway Island; to provide for a charter for the City of Skidaway Island; to provide for incorporation, boundaries, and powers of the city; to provide for a governing authority of such city and the powers, duties, authority, election, terms, method of filling vacancies, compensation, qualifications, prohibitions, and removal from office relative to members of such governing authority; to provide for related matters; to provide for a referendum; to provide for contingent effective dates; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **158–3** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Jesse Petrea — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-03-20** House Hopper
+- **2017-03-22** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2017-03-24** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2017-03-24** House Withdrawn, Recommitted `withdrawal, referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-01** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-02-08** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2018-02-08** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2018-02-12** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-13** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-02-13** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2018-02-13** Senate Tabled
+- **2018-02-14** Senate Taken from Table
+- **2018-02-14** Senate Passed/Adopted As Amended `passage`
+- **2018-03-21** House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
+- **2018-04-02** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2018-05-07** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2018-05-07** Act 427 `executive-signature`
+- **2018-05-07** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/02b7cc58-1ac6-436e-8911-eec28a716470`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+