---
type: "Bill"
title: "Cleveland, City of; provide new charter"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to provide a new charter for the City of Cleveland;to provide for other matters relative to the foregoing; to repeal a specific Act; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2013_14"
identifier: "HB 584"
citation: "Georgia HB 584 (2013_14)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lee Hawkins", "Stephen Allison", "Terry Rogers"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 13
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2013-03-12"
last_action: "2013-05-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/12d47d85-9a95-460f-b2ec-96c0fd4a14a4"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "ddb38157229b94c0dfb7403487cc11b10dd520c674b8cc0ab28c90b3c901ce9d"
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 584 (2013_14) — Cleveland, City of; provide new charter

A BILL to be entitled an Act to provide a new charter for the City of Cleveland;to provide for other matters relative to the foregoing; to repeal a specific Act; to provide for an effective date; 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 584/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/136622.pdf)
2. **LC 34 3833/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/134196.pdf)

## Votes

- Local Calendar — **144–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Lee Hawkins — primary (person)
- Stephen Allison — primary (person)
- Terry Rogers — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2013-03-12** House Hopper
- **2013-03-13** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2013-03-14** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2013-03-20** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2013-03-20** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2013-03-20** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2013-03-21** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2013-03-26** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2013-03-26** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2013-04-08** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2013-05-06** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2013-05-06** Act 143 `executive-signature`
- **2013-05-06** Effective Date

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/12d47d85-9a95-460f-b2ec-96c0fd4a14a4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).