---
type: "Bill"
title: "Camden County; Joint Board of Elections and Registration; create"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to create a Joint Board of Elections and Registration for Camden County, which shall conduct primaries and elections for Camden County, the City of St. Marys, the City of Woodbine, and the City of Kingsland, and provide for its powers and duties; to provide for effective dates; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2017_18"
identifier: "HB 1023"
citation: "Georgia HB 1023 (2017_18)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jason Spencer", "John Corbett"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 13
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2018-03-05"
last_action: "2019-01-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dbc6c07f-c5a1-4acf-aa64-92aec95d5f0a"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "12fbc60d3d38f7e10fe3981b22cefd25d635bc9f5da3a635ce73162642506cd4"
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 1023 (2017_18) — Camden County; Joint Board of Elections and Registration; create

A BILL to be entitled an Act to create a Joint Board of Elections and Registration for Camden County, which shall conduct primaries and elections for Camden County, the City of St. Marys, the City of Woodbine, and the City of Kingsland, and provide for its powers and duties; to provide for 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

- Local Calendar — **156–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jason Spencer — primary (person)
- John Corbett — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-03-05** House Hopper
- **2018-03-07** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2018-03-09** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2018-03-14** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-14** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2018-03-14** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2018-03-15** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-21** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-21** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2018-04-04** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2018-05-08** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-08** Act 505 `executive-signature`
- **2019-01-01** Effective Date

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/dbc6c07f-c5a1-4acf-aa64-92aec95d5f0a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).