---
type: "Bill"
title: "City of McRae-Helena; create and incorporate new municipality; provisions"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to provide for the abolition of the current charters of the municipalities of the City of Helena and the City of McRae; to create and incorporate a new municipality under the name \"City of McRae-Helena, Georgia\"; to provide for the status, boundaries, and powers of the restructured government; to provide for the form, administration, and affairs of the restructured government; to provide for officers and employees, elections, courts, authorities, taxation, and finance; to provide for related matters; to provide for severability; to repeal certain local Acts; to provide for effective dates; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2013_14"
identifier: "HB 967"
citation: "Georgia HB 967 (2013_14)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jimmy Pruett"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 13
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2014-02-07"
last_action: "2014-04-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/21c7978c-cba3-4a07-9dec-4bf89ac54ce9"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "3b6f0d088c0d9a75c7b7ad68c8444499e3418227c3d0af093ca4d5c861248428"
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 967 (2013_14) — City of McRae-Helena; create and incorporate new municipality; provisions

A BILL to be entitled an Act to provide for the abolition of the current charters of the municipalities of the City of Helena and the City of McRae; to create and incorporate a new municipality under the name "City of McRae-Helena, Georgia"; to provide for the status, boundaries, and powers of the restructured government; to provide for the form, administration, and affairs of the restructured government; to provide for officers and employees, elections, courts, authorities, taxation, and finance; to provide for related matters; to provide for severability; to repeal certain local Acts; to provide for effective dates; 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 967/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/142579.pdf)
2. **LC 28 7042/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/139308.pdf)

## Votes

- Local Calendar — **158–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jimmy Pruett — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2014-02-07** House Hopper
- **2014-02-10** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2014-02-11** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2014-02-25** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2014-02-25** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2014-02-25** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2014-02-26** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2014-03-04** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2014-03-04** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2014-03-25** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2014-04-10** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2014-04-10** Act 390 `executive-signature`
- **2014-04-10** Effective Date

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/21c7978c-cba3-4a07-9dec-4bf89ac54ce9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).