---
type: "Bill"
title: "East Dublin, City of; corporate limits; change"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act providing a charter for the City of East Dublin, approved April 9, 1981 (Ga. L. 1981, p. 4645), as amended, particularly by an Act approved May 5, 2006 (Ga. L. 2006, p. 4402), so as to change the corporate limits of the city; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2015_16"
identifier: "HB 839"
citation: "Georgia HB 839 (2015_16)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["James Epps", "Matt Hatchett"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 13
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2016-01-26"
last_action: "2016-04-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/84e1088f-12ee-4db5-b2df-9197c0592a7f"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "9622578006d19cdbef7b465394c3f2913c0330e3b5795a07056d1b8ad548e2ca"
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 839 (2015_16) — East Dublin, City of; corporate limits; change

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act providing a charter for the City of East Dublin, approved April 9, 1981 (Ga. L. 1981, p. 4645), as amended, particularly by an Act approved May 5, 2006 (Ga. L. 2006, p. 4402), so as to change the corporate limits of the city; 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 839/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/158209.pdf)
2. **LC 44 0002/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/155585.pdf)

## Votes

- Local Calendar — **153–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- James Epps — primary (person)
- Matt Hatchett — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2016-01-26** House Hopper
- **2016-01-27** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2016-01-28** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2016-02-04** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2016-02-04** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2016-02-04** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2016-02-08** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2016-02-19** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2016-02-19** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2016-03-28** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2016-04-26** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2016-04-26** Act 455 `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/84e1088f-12ee-4db5-b2df-9197c0592a7f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).