---
type: "Bill"
title: "Covington, City of; change corporate limits"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act to incorporate and to grant a new charter to the City of Covington, approved January 30, 1962 (Ga. L. 1962, p. 2003), as amended, so as to change the corporate limits of such municipality; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2019_20"
identifier: "HB 646"
citation: "Georgia HB 646 (2019_20)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Andrew Welch", "Dave Belton", "Pam Dickerson", "Roger Rutledge"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2019-03-21"
last_action: "2019-05-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1eddfd17-fae2-4eef-baa4-aa8716d924b4"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "3e5c8f0b64e0974af64c8c285145300f5f68d929f7a6f21397b178f7da1d46a1"
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 646 (2019_20) — Covington, City of; change corporate limits

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act to incorporate and to grant a new charter to the City of Covington, approved January 30, 1962 (Ga. L. 1962, p. 2003), as amended, so as to change the corporate limits of such municipality; 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.

1. **HB 646/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/187449.pdf)
2. **LC 44 1213/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/185301.pdf)
3. **Local Ad** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/185368.pdf)

## Votes

- Local Calendar — **156–1** (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.

- **2019-03-21** House Hopper
- **2019-03-22** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2019-03-25** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2019-03-26** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-26** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2019-03-26** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2019-03-28** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-29** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-02** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2019-04-11** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-06** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-06** Act 166 `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-06** Effective Date

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1eddfd17-fae2-4eef-baa4-aa8716d924b4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).