---
type: "Bill"
title: "Long County; Board of Commissioners; provide staggering of terms of office"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act to re-create and establish the Board of Commissioners of Long County, approved March 10, 1988 (Ga. L. 1988, p. 3755), as amended, so as to provide for staggering of terms of office for commissioner districts; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2017_18"
identifier: "HB 682"
citation: "Georgia HB 682 (2017_18)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jeff Jones"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 13
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2018-01-11"
last_action: "2018-05-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8bdf1244-72c6-4043-ba03-dd1a89518b26"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "04adb342570ca4a115593fe4d9380c0d370c2ad2e20835dd15c1b10a1e2400cb"
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 682 (2017_18) — Long County; Board of Commissioners; provide staggering of terms of office

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act to re-create and establish the Board of Commissioners of Long County, approved March 10, 1988 (Ga. L. 1988, p. 3755), as amended, so as to provide for staggering of terms of office for commissioner districts; 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.


## Votes

- Local Calendar — **160–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jeff Jones — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-11** House Hopper
- **2018-01-18** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2018-01-19** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2018-01-23** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-01-23** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2018-01-23** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2018-01-24** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-06** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-06** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2018-04-02** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2018-05-03** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-03** Act 326 `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-03** Effective Date

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8bdf1244-72c6-4043-ba03-dd1a89518b26`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).