---
type: "Bill"
title: "Villa Rica, City of; provide new charter"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to provide a new charter for the City of Villa Rica; to provide for incorporation, boundaries, powers, and construction; to provide for exercise of powers; to provide for other matters relative to the foregoing; to provide a specific repealer; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2017_18"
identifier: "HB 1031"
citation: "Georgia HB 1031 (2017_18)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["J. Collins", "Micah Gravley"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 14
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2018-03-07"
last_action: "2018-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e192b16e-fb7d-42c0-9a26-d4bdc85645dc"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "709f16ca51ca2adeabbf17cb282a1ebb403aed641f515e20701fc2d90f04e0fc"
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 1031 (2017_18) — Villa Rica, City of; provide new charter

A BILL to be entitled an Act to provide a new charter for the City of Villa Rica; to provide for incorporation, boundaries, powers, and construction; to provide for exercise of powers; to provide for other matters relative to the foregoing; to provide a specific repealer; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.


## Votes

- Local Calendar — **156–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- J. Collins — primary (person)
- Micah Gravley — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-03-07** House Hopper
- **2018-03-09** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2018-03-12** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2018-03-14** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-14** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2018-03-14** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2018-03-14** House Immediately Transmitted to Senate
- **2018-03-15** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-19** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-19** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2018-04-04** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2018-05-08** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-08** Act 457 `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-08** Effective Date

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e192b16e-fb7d-42c0-9a26-d4bdc85645dc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).