---
type: "Bill"
title: "Echols County; board of education; provide nonpartisan elections"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act to provide for the election of the members of the board of education of Echols County, approved April 10, 1968 (Ga. L. 1968, p. 3514), so as to provide that the members of the board of education shall be elected in nonpartisan elections; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2015_16"
identifier: "HB 517"
citation: "Georgia HB 517 (2015_16)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["John Corbett"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 13
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2015-03-02"
last_action: "2015-05-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/893839a3-0b33-40ee-b53d-3e2ddf30fe3a"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "dadfaaff23671cb7653c9a6664319e89f8e88e5a43aeb347efd4707f6955db8d"
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 517 (2015_16) — Echols County; board of education; provide nonpartisan elections

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act to provide for the election of the members of the board of education of Echols County, approved April 10, 1968 (Ga. L. 1968, p. 3514), so as to provide that the members of the board of education shall be elected in nonpartisan elections; to provide for related matters; 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 517/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/151605.pdf)
2. **LC 21 3714/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/149594.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **122–46** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- John Corbett — 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`
- **2015-03-09** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-03-11** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2015-03-11** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2015-03-13** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-18** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-03-18** 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** Act 239 `executive-signature`
- **2015-05-12** Effective Date

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/893839a3-0b33-40ee-b53d-3e2ddf30fe3a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).