---
type: "Bill"
title: "Oxford, City of; change corporate limits"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act to provide a new charter for the City of Oxford, approved April 13, 2001 (Ga. L. 2001, p. 4195), as amended, so as to change the corporate limits of such municipality; to provide for related matters; to provide for a contingent effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2017_18"
identifier: "HB 394"
citation: "Georgia HB 394 (2017_18)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Andrew Welch", "Dave Belton", "Pam Dickerson", "Roger Rutledge"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 13
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2017-02-16"
last_action: "2017-06-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e13a3688-7b53-4f6d-b846-90cbfb0394e1"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "8fb15dab67e1995e65340c336d633c35417835f7a62623863e24e5342ada0e4d"
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 394 (2017_18) — Oxford, City of; change corporate limits

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act to provide a new charter for the City of Oxford, approved April 13, 2001 (Ga. L. 2001, p. 4195), as amended, so as to change the corporate limits of such municipality; to provide for related matters; to provide for a contingent 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 without HB 384 — **155–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Andrew Welch — primary (person)
- Dave Belton — primary (person)
- Pam Dickerson — primary (person)
- Roger Rutledge — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-16** House Hopper
- **2017-02-17** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2017-02-21** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2017-02-22** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-22** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2017-02-22** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2017-02-23** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-16** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-16** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2017-04-04** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2017-05-02** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2017-05-02** Act 95 `executive-signature`
- **2017-06-01** Effective Date

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e13a3688-7b53-4f6d-b846-90cbfb0394e1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).