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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Pelham, City of; reduce size of city council; revise powers of mayor"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act to provide a new charter for the City of Pelham, approved April 28, 2016 (Ga. L. 2016, p. 3859), so as to reduce the size of the city council; to revise the power of the mayor to vote at city council meetings; to revise when newly elected mayors or council members take office; to provide for election by plurality of votes; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
+legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
+session: "2021_22"
+identifier: "HB 357"
+citation: "Georgia HB 357 (2021_22)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Joe Campbell"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2021-02-08"
+last_action: "2021-05-03"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7598221f-e15a-47d4-aa43-f4cc8da48e9b"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "6c00d0f55e45dcdbb1c3534aa98462a325b58a6d6f58e7af67413bd897164d88"
+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 357 (2021_22) — Pelham, City of; reduce size of city council; revise powers of mayor
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act to provide a new charter for the City of Pelham, approved April 28, 2016 (Ga. L. 2016, p. 3859), so as to reduce the size of the city council; to revise the power of the mayor to vote at city council meetings; to revise when newly elected mayors or council members take office; to provide for election by plurality of votes; 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 357/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/198417.pdf)
+2. **LC 47 0738/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/197016.pdf)
+3. **Local Ad** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/197049.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Local Calendar — **162–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Joe Campbell — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-02-08** House Hopper
+- **2021-02-09** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2021-02-10** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2021-02-16** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-02-16** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2021-02-16** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2021-02-17** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2021-02-22** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-02-22** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2021-04-05** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-05-03** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2021-05-03** Act 52 `executive-signature`
+- **2021-05-03** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7598221f-e15a-47d4-aa43-f4cc8da48e9b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+