---
type: "Bill"
title: "DeKalb County; filling of a vacancy on the audit oversight committee; provide"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act revising, superseding, and consolidating the laws relating to the governing authority of DeKalb County and creating a chairman and board of commissioners of said county, approved March 8, 1956 (Ga. L. 1956, p. 3237), as amended, particularly by an Act approved May 12, 2015 (Ga. L. 2015, p. 3826), so as to provide for the filling of a vacancy on the audit oversight committee; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2017_18"
identifier: "SB 487"
citation: "Georgia SB 487 (2017_18)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Emanuel Jones", "Fran Millar", "Gloria Butler", "Steve Henson", "Tonya Anderson"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 13
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2018-03-07"
last_action: "2018-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b876b018-b71d-4e53-8c7e-506e124e3590"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "dc84d3c60fcc8960d64323c52c8a149fa32986a17da48cfd938b8837ec943427"
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 487 (2017_18) — DeKalb County; filling of a vacancy on the audit oversight committee; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act revising, superseding, and consolidating the laws relating to the governing authority of DeKalb County and creating a chairman and board of commissioners of said county, approved March 8, 1956 (Ga. L. 1956, p. 3237), as amended, particularly by an Act approved May 12, 2015 (Ga. L. 2015, p. 3826), so as to provide for the filling of a vacancy on the audit oversight committee; 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

- LOCAL CONSENT CALENDAR — **48–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Emanuel Jones — primary (person)
- Fran Millar — primary (person)
- Gloria Butler — primary (person)
- Steve Henson — primary (person)
- Tonya Anderson — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2018-03-07** Senate Hopper
- **2018-03-09** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-14** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-14** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2018-03-15** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2018-03-19** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2018-03-27** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-27** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2018-03-27** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2018-04-05** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2018-05-08** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-08** Act 537 `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-08** Effective Date

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b876b018-b71d-4e53-8c7e-506e124e3590`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).