---
type: "Bill"
title: "Springfield, City of; provide for corporate boundaries; provisions"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act providing a new charter for the City of Springfield, approved April 11, 2012 (Ga. L. 2012, p. 4840), so as to provide for corporate boundaries; to provide for members of the city council; to provide for political activities of officers and employees; to provide for organizational meetings; to provide for ordinances; to provide for a mayor pro tempore; to provide for administrative and service departments; to provide for a city attorney; to provide for jurisdiction of the municipal court; to provide for appellate review; to provide for an operating budget; to provide for capital improvements; to provide for purchasing; to provide for sale and lease of property; to provide for bonds for officials; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2017_18"
identifier: "HB 561"
citation: "Georgia HB 561 (2017_18)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bill Hitchens", "Jon Burns"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 13
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2017-03-09"
last_action: "2017-05-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3cbdbc04-c6b6-4cc3-a5dd-f3935bc10f80"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "87ba4d21e2009e2816163485574d1778aeb183029a9b50637411c0b6eab5f360"
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 561 (2017_18) — Springfield, City of; provide for corporate boundaries; provisions

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act providing a new charter for the City of Springfield, approved April 11, 2012 (Ga. L. 2012, p. 4840), so as to provide for corporate boundaries; to provide for members of the city council; to provide for political activities of officers and employees; to provide for organizational meetings; to provide for ordinances; to provide for a mayor pro tempore; to provide for administrative and service departments; to provide for a city attorney; to provide for jurisdiction of the municipal court; to provide for appellate review; to provide for an operating budget; to provide for capital improvements; to provide for purchasing; to provide for sale and lease of property; to provide for bonds for officials; to provide for related matters; 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 562 — **160–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bill Hitchens — primary (person)
- Jon Burns — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-03-09** House Hopper
- **2017-03-10** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2017-03-13** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2017-03-14** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-14** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2017-03-14** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2017-03-15** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-22** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-22** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2017-04-04** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2017-05-03** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2017-05-03** Act 132 `executive-signature`
- **2017-05-03** Effective Date

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3cbdbc04-c6b6-4cc3-a5dd-f3935bc10f80`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).