republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2013-14/hb-247.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Emerson, City of; provide new charter	A BILL to be entitled an Act to provide a new charter for the City of Emerson; to provide for incorporation, boundaries, and powers of the city; to provide for a governing authority of such city and the powers, duties, authority, election, terms, vacancies, compensation, expenses, qualifications, prohibitions, conflicts of interest, and suspension and removal from office relative to members of such governing authority; to provide for other matters relative to the foregoing; to repeal a specific Act; to provide for effective dates; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2013_14	HB 247	Georgia HB 247 (2013_14)	bill		enacted	Paul Battles	2	13	1	2013-02-07	2013-05-07	openstates	ocd-bill/8ff0a853-bf8d-43b8-8341-dbef24425eba	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	7e3bcb8793e787fae11cf9d95e3654ce8a267160def5ecdd417831e66149784a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 247 (2013_14) — Emerson, City of; provide new charter

A BILL to be entitled an Act to provide a new charter for the City of Emerson; to provide for incorporation, boundaries, and powers of the city; to provide for a governing authority of such city and the powers, duties, authority, election, terms, vacancies, compensation, expenses, qualifications, prohibitions, conflicts of interest, and suspension and removal from office relative to members of such governing authority; to provide for other matters relative to the foregoing; to repeal a specific Act; 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.

1. HB 247/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 28 6536ER/a (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Local Calendar — 151–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Paul Battles — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-02-07 House Hopper
• 2013-02-08 House First Readers reading-1
• 2013-02-11 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2013-02-13 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-02-13 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2013-02-13 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2013-02-14 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2013-02-26 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-02-26 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2013-04-01 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2013-05-07 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2013-05-07 Act 320 executive-signature
• 2013-05-07 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8ff0a853-bf8d-43b8-8341-dbef24425eba. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).