---
type: "Bill"
title: "Skidaway Island, City of; incorporate"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to incorporate the City of Skidaway Island; to provide for a charter for the City of Skidaway Island; 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 related matters; to provide for a referendum; to provide for contingent effective dates; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2017_18"
identifier: "HB 618"
citation: "Georgia HB 618 (2017_18)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jesse Petrea"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 18
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2017-03-20"
last_action: "2018-05-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/02b7cc58-1ac6-436e-8911-eec28a716470"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "2616d85dadd555a5e5e8e80ab872b7a6b2553e9159c1692026cc1658c9f4960f"
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 618 (2017_18) — Skidaway Island, City of; incorporate

A BILL to be entitled an Act to incorporate the City of Skidaway Island; to provide for a charter for the City of Skidaway Island; 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 related matters; to provide for a referendum; to provide for contingent effective dates; 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

- PASSAGE — **158–3** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jesse Petrea — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-03-20** House Hopper
- **2017-03-22** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2017-03-24** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2017-03-24** House Withdrawn, Recommitted `withdrawal, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-01** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-08** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2018-02-08** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2018-02-12** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-13** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-13** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2018-02-13** Senate Tabled
- **2018-02-14** Senate Taken from Table
- **2018-02-14** Senate Passed/Adopted As Amended `passage`
- **2018-03-21** House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
- **2018-04-02** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2018-05-07** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-07** Act 427 `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-07** Effective Date

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/02b7cc58-1ac6-436e-8911-eec28a716470`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).