---
type: "Bill"
title: "City of Berkeley Lake; change number of councilmembers required for a quorum with the mayor"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act to provide a new charter for the City of Berkeley Lake, approved April 9, 1999 (Ga. L. 1999, p. 3636), as amended, so as to change the number of councilmembers required for a quorum with the mayor; to provide that the mayor pro tempore may vote in the event of a tie when presiding in the mayor's absences; to reaffirm the current city boundary; to provide for related matters; to provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2013_14"
identifier: "SB 423"
citation: "Georgia SB 423 (2013_14)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David Shafer"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 13
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2014-03-03"
last_action: "2014-04-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6011b801-76a5-43c5-af63-667e106fb7fe"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "bbd8c387768feb68fcaa3857381e8b33f690bdf000d66629214ca3410461b309"
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 423 (2013_14) — City of Berkeley Lake; change number of councilmembers required for a quorum with the mayor

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act to provide a new charter for the City of Berkeley Lake, approved April 9, 1999 (Ga. L. 1999, p. 3636), as amended, so as to change the number of councilmembers required for a quorum with the mayor; to provide that the mayor pro tempore may vote in the event of a tie when presiding in the mayor's absences; to reaffirm the current city boundary; to provide for related matters; to provide 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. **As introduced LC 28 7163ER** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/142009.pdf)
2. **As passed Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/143076.pdf)
3. **SB 423 ad** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/142282.pdf)
4. **SB 423/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/145034.pdf)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- David Shafer — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2014-03-03** Senate Hopper
- **2014-03-04** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2014-03-11** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2014-03-11** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2014-03-12** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2014-03-13** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2014-03-18** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2014-03-18** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2014-03-18** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2014-03-27** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2014-04-10** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2014-04-10** Act 472 `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/6011b801-76a5-43c5-af63-667e106fb7fe`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).