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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Covington, City of; change corporate limits"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act to incorporate and to grant a new charter to the City of Covington, approved January 30, 1962 (Ga. L. 1962, p. 2003), as amended, so as to change the corporate limits of such municipality; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
+legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
+session: "2019_20"
+identifier: "HB 646"
+citation: "Georgia HB 646 (2019_20)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Andrew Welch", "Dave Belton", "Pam Dickerson", "Roger Rutledge"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2019-03-21"
+last_action: "2019-05-06"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1eddfd17-fae2-4eef-baa4-aa8716d924b4"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "3e5c8f0b64e0974af64c8c285145300f5f68d929f7a6f21397b178f7da1d46a1"
+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 646 (2019_20) — Covington, City of; change corporate limits
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act to incorporate and to grant a new charter to the City of Covington, approved January 30, 1962 (Ga. L. 1962, p. 2003), as amended, so as to change the corporate limits of such municipality; to provide for related matters; 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 646/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/187449.pdf)
+2. **LC 44 1213/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/185301.pdf)
+3. **Local Ad** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/185368.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Local Calendar — **156–1** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Andrew Welch — primary (person)
+- Dave Belton — primary (person)
+- Pam Dickerson — primary (person)
+- Roger Rutledge — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-03-21** House Hopper
+- **2019-03-22** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2019-03-25** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2019-03-26** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-26** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2019-03-26** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2019-03-28** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-29** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-04-02** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2019-04-11** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-05-06** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2019-05-06** Act 166 `executive-signature`
+- **2019-05-06** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1eddfd17-fae2-4eef-baa4-aa8716d924b4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+