republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2013-14/hb-252.md

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Bill	Athens-Clarke County; chief magistrate judge; provide nonpartisan elections	A BILL to be entitled an Act to provide that future elections for the office of chief magistrate judge of the magistrate court of Athens-Clarke County shall be nonpartisan elections held at the time of certain general primary elections; to provide for submission of this Act under the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended; to provide for related matters; to provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2013_14	HB 252	Georgia HB 252 (2013_14)	bill		enacted	Chuck Williams Regina Quick Spencer Frye	2	13	1	2013-02-07	2013-04-24	openstates	ocd-bill/9e8704d7-180d-4569-ba9c-e899b1241e66	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	393eafcbfa974b913ecbe69135ce489ebc430d961b9a8903f81064a00706d7ed	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 252 (2013_14) — Athens-Clarke County; chief magistrate judge; provide nonpartisan elections

A BILL to be entitled an Act to provide that future elections for the office of chief magistrate judge of the magistrate court of Athens-Clarke County shall be nonpartisan elections held at the time of certain general primary elections; to provide for submission of this Act under the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended; to provide for related matters; to provide an effective date; 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 252/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 21 1922/a (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 150–23 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Chuck Williams — primary (person)
• Regina Quick — primary (person)
• Spencer Frye — 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
• 2013-02-19 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-02-27 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2013-02-27 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2013-02-28 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2013-03-04 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-03-04 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2013-04-01 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2013-04-24 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2013-04-24 Act 47 executive-signature
• 2013-04-24 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9e8704d7-180d-4569-ba9c-e899b1241e66. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).