---
type: "Bill"
title: "South Fulton, City of; Fulton County; incorporate"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to incorporate the City of South Fulton in Fulton County; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2015_16"
identifier: "HB 514"
citation: "Georgia HB 514 (2015_16)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Margaret Kaiser", "Roger Bruce", "Ronnie Mabra", "Sheila Jones", "Virgil Fludd", "Wendell Willard"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 27
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2015-03-02"
last_action: "2016-04-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/95d46a29-f4d8-4e80-98d3-5338972f3f66"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "59d422c3fd4a0437a85b74a02faeba573fdb7519e5ffdc1bfb8f7b11ac1a543e"
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 514 (2015_16) — South Fulton, City of; Fulton County; incorporate

A BILL to be entitled an Act to incorporate the City of South Fulton in Fulton County; 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 514/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/162317.pdf)
2. **LC 28 7553/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/149596.pdf)
3. **Sen ctee sub LC 28 8069S** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/160768.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **148–21** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Margaret Kaiser — primary (person)
- Roger Bruce — primary (person)
- Ronnie Mabra — primary (person)
- Sheila Jones — primary (person)
- Virgil Fludd — primary (person)
- Wendell Willard — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2015-03-02** House Hopper
- **2015-03-03** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2015-03-04** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2015-03-04** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-03-09** House Postponed
- **2015-03-11** House Postponed
- **2015-03-13** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2015-03-13** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2015-03-18** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-31** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-03-31** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2015-03-31** Senate Tabled
- **2015-04-02** Senate Taken from Table
- **2015-04-02** Senate Lost `failure, reading-3`
- **2015-04-02** Senate Reconsidered
- **2016-01-11** Senate Recommitted `referral-committee`
- **2016-03-16** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2016-03-16** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2016-03-22** Senate Tabled
- **2016-03-22** Senate Taken from Table
- **2016-03-22** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2016-03-22** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2016-03-24** House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
- **2016-04-04** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2016-04-26** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2016-04-26** Act 421 `executive-signature`
- **2016-04-26** Effective Date

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/95d46a29-f4d8-4e80-98d3-5338972f3f66`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).