---
type: "Bill"
title: "Payne, City of; abolish"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to repeal an Act creating a new charter for Payne City, approved May 16, 2007 (Ga. L. 2007, p. 3555), as amended, so as to abolish Payne City; to provide for the disposition of the assets, property, and legal rights and obligations of the city and the winding up of city affairs; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2015_16"
identifier: "HB 575"
citation: "Georgia HB 575 (2015_16)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Allen Peake", "James Beverly", "James Epps", "Nikki Randall", "Robert Dickey"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 13
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2015-03-09"
last_action: "2015-03-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/22caa2ff-b472-44e5-acbe-df0e04630c46"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "7e0e0c8ff61a933a7ee4f2d8689807a2d37853f9c04923234b900dab459c7c99"
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 575 (2015_16) — Payne, City of; abolish

A BILL to be entitled an Act to repeal an Act creating a new charter for Payne City, approved May 16, 2007 (Ga. L. 2007, p. 3555), as amended, so as to abolish Payne City; to provide for the disposition of the assets, property, and legal rights and obligations of the city and the winding up of city affairs; 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 575/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/151900.pdf)
2. **LC 21 3582/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/150556.pdf)

## Votes

- Local Calendar — **162–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Allen Peake — primary (person)
- James Beverly — primary (person)
- James Epps — primary (person)
- Nikki Randall — primary (person)
- Robert Dickey — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2015-03-09** House Hopper
- **2015-03-11** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2015-03-13** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2015-03-18** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-03-18** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2015-03-18** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2015-03-19** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-20** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-03-20** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2015-03-27** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2015-03-27** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2015-03-27** Act 13 `executive-signature`
- **2015-03-27** Effective Date

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/22caa2ff-b472-44e5-acbe-df0e04630c46`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).