---
type: "Bill"
title: "Alamo, City of; provide for incorporation, boundaries, and powers"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act to provide a new charter for the City of Alamo, approved May 18, 2007 (Ga. L. 2007, p. 3964), so as to provide for incorporation, boundaries, and powers of the city; to provide for other matters relative to the foregoing; to provide an effective date; 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 697"
citation: "Georgia HB 697 (2019_20)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jimmy Pruett"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2019-03-25"
last_action: "2019-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/42c43fa9-e998-46a7-8784-a6761f76d294"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "4850a9125c78efefae2b96089a3f63bc2cc7b9bfd1654bf31b705deaab896614"
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 697 (2019_20) — Alamo, City of; provide for incorporation, boundaries, and powers

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act to provide a new charter for the City of Alamo, approved May 18, 2007 (Ga. L. 2007, p. 3964), so as to provide for incorporation, boundaries, and powers of the city; to provide for other matters relative to the foregoing; to provide an effective date; 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 697/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/187469.pdf)
2. **LC 28 9368ER/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/185945.pdf)
3. **Local Ad** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/185956.pdf)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Jimmy Pruett — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-03-25** House Hopper
- **2019-03-25** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2019-03-26** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2019-03-28** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-28** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2019-03-28** House Passed/Adopted `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`
- **2019-04-12** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-06** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-06** Act 183 `executive-signature`
- **2019-07-01** Effective Date

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/42c43fa9-e998-46a7-8784-a6761f76d294`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).