---
type: "Bill"
title: "Tarrytown, Town of; provide new charter"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to provide a new charter for the Town of Tarrytown; to provide for incorporation, boundaries, and powers of the city; to provide for a governing authority of such city and the powers, duties, authority, election, terms, method of filling vacancies, compensation, qualifications, prohibitions, and removal from office relative to members of such governing authority; to provide for other matters relative to the foregoing; to repeal a specific Act; to provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2017_18"
identifier: "HB 1061"
citation: "Georgia HB 1061 (2017_18)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Greg Morris"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 14
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2018-03-15"
last_action: "2018-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f669d154-7749-4ef7-a3e5-0cdeaa00a444"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "36fcb6d6fb0ca5513dfaf25765a05264d1cb1aee89aa847c0f8b8e3b72183cce"
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 1061 (2017_18) — Tarrytown, Town of; provide new charter

A BILL to be entitled an Act to provide a new charter for the Town of Tarrytown; to provide for incorporation, boundaries, and powers of the city; to provide for a governing authority of such city and the powers, duties, authority, election, terms, method of filling vacancies, compensation, qualifications, prohibitions, and removal from office relative to members of such governing authority; to provide for other matters relative to the foregoing; to repeal a specific Act; to provide an effective date; 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 — **155–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Greg Morris — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-03-15** House Hopper
- **2018-03-19** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2018-03-21** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2018-03-23** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-23** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2018-03-23** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2018-03-23** House Immediately Transmitted to Senate
- **2018-03-23** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-29** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-29** 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 527 `executive-signature`
- **2018-07-01** Effective Date

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f669d154-7749-4ef7-a3e5-0cdeaa00a444`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).