---
type: "Bill"
title: "Americus, City of; provide for a city manager"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act providing a new charter for the City of Americus, approved April 13, 1992 (Ga. L. 1992, p. 5985), as amended, so as to provide for a city manager; to provide for appointment, qualifications, terms, removal, and vacancies; to provide for duties, powers, and responsibilities; to provide for appointment of a city clerk and finance director; to provide for related matters; to provide for applicability; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2015_16"
identifier: "HB 251"
citation: "Georgia HB 251 (2015_16)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mike Cheokas"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 12
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2015-02-09"
last_action: "2015-05-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/74804675-b30b-4dee-ae9b-1af0c07faac1"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "406d708d9c958c000af3905ee2307b047a17901dbf3918743084f357d4de14c6"
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 251 (2015_16) — Americus, City of; provide for a city manager

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act providing a new charter for the City of Americus, approved April 13, 1992 (Ga. L. 1992, p. 5985), as amended, so as to provide for a city manager; to provide for appointment, qualifications, terms, removal, and vacancies; to provide for duties, powers, and responsibilities; to provide for appointment of a city clerk and finance director; to provide for related matters; to provide for applicability; 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 251/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/150689.pdf)
2. **LC 40 0766/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/147061.pdf)

## Votes

- Local Calendar — **165–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Mike Cheokas — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2015-02-09** House Hopper
- **2015-02-10** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2015-02-11** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2015-02-12** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-02-12** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2015-02-12** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2015-02-17** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-09** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-03-09** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2015-04-06** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2015-05-12** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2015-05-12** Veto V6 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/74804675-b30b-4dee-ae9b-1af0c07faac1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).