---
type: "Bill"
title: "Warner Robins, City; revise qualifications for candidates for mayor and council"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act providing a new charter for the City of Warner Robins in Houston County, approved March 7, 1978 (Ga. L. 1978, p. 3081), as amended, so as to revise the qualifications for candidates for mayor and council; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2013_14"
identifier: "HB 383"
citation: "Georgia HB 383 (2013_14)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Buddy Harden", "James Epps", "Larry O`Neal", "Robert Dickey", "Willie Talton"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 13
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2013-02-19"
last_action: "2013-04-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ad8a3743-d883-4484-be73-ccedd089567c"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "6ef75b27040c69002fe7c121425734dc82811e1199adcbd24525dadbff43eb5c"
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 383 (2013_14) — Warner Robins, City; revise qualifications for candidates for mayor and council

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act providing a new charter for the City of Warner Robins in Houston County, approved March 7, 1978 (Ga. L. 1978, p. 3081), as amended, so as to revise the qualifications for candidates for mayor and council; 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 383/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/133587.pdf)
2. **LC 28 6468/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/131265.pdf)

## Votes

- Local Calendar — **156–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Buddy Harden — primary (person)
- James Epps — primary (person)
- Larry O`Neal — primary (person)
- Robert Dickey — primary (person)
- Willie Talton — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2013-02-19** House Hopper
- **2013-02-20** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2013-02-21** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2013-02-25** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2013-02-25** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2013-02-25** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2013-02-26** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2013-03-04** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2013-03-04** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2013-04-01** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2013-04-24** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2013-04-24** Act 60 `executive-signature`
- **2013-04-24** Effective Date

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ad8a3743-d883-4484-be73-ccedd089567c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).