---
type: "Bill"
title: "Gainesville, City of; change corporate boundaries"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act to provide a new charter for the City of Gainesville, approved April 11, 2012 (Ga. L. 2012, p. 4870), so as to change the corporate boundaries of the city by annexing certain territory; 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 650"
citation: "Georgia HB 650 (2019_20)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Emory Dunahoo", "Lee Hawkins", "Matt Dubnik", "Timothy Barr"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 13
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2019-03-21"
last_action: "2019-05-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7ae66c42-7c29-4af3-a561-ef10018b6816"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "c8b159f97998feb352fb9c42e098e8550ad5f05f6041badab53d4815a64a697c"
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 650 (2019_20) — Gainesville, City of; change corporate boundaries

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act to provide a new charter for the City of Gainesville, approved April 11, 2012 (Ga. L. 2012, p. 4870), so as to change the corporate boundaries of the city by annexing certain territory; 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 650/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/187453.pdf)
2. **LC 44 1184/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/185309.pdf)
3. **LC 44 1267S/hcs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/186163.pdf)
4. **LC 44 1267S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/186162.pdf)
5. **Local Ad** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/185381.pdf)

## Votes

- Local Calendar — **152–5** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Emory Dunahoo — primary (person)
- Lee Hawkins — primary (person)
- Matt Dubnik — primary (person)
- Timothy Barr — 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`
- **2019-03-28** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-28** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2019-03-28** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2019-03-29** 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 170 `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/7ae66c42-7c29-4af3-a561-ef10018b6816`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).