republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2013-14/hb-596.md

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Bill	Telfair County; Board of Education; change description of districts	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act reapportioning the election districts of the Board of Education of Telfair County, approved April 11, 1979 (Ga. L. 1979, p. 3539), as amended, particularly by an Act approved May 1, 2002 (Ga. L. 2002, p. 5385), so as to redistrict the Board of Education of Telfair County; to change the description of the education districts; to provide for the continuation in office of the current members and the election of subsequent members; to provide for related matters; to provide for submission of this Act for preclearance under Section 5 of the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2013_14	HB 596	Georgia HB 596 (2013_14)	bill		enacted	Jimmy Pruett	2	14	1	2013-03-12	2013-05-06	openstates	ocd-bill/74ee45fc-70d8-4633-bd2f-bfd8a370dcbb	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	a785a6db356e18de89f11e5e9b94c451f920e1003a6bcef8a0f909993f1dfcc2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 596 (2013_14) — Telfair County; Board of Education; change description of districts

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act reapportioning the election districts of the Board of Education of Telfair County, approved April 11, 1979 (Ga. L. 1979, p. 3539), as amended, particularly by an Act approved May 1, 2002 (Ga. L. 2002, p. 5385), so as to redistrict the Board of Education of Telfair County; to change the description of the education districts; to provide for the continuation in office of the current members and the election of subsequent members; to provide for related matters; to provide for submission of this Act for preclearance under Section 5 of the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended; to provide for 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 596/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 40 0278/a (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Local Calendar Without HBs 380, 594, 598, 604 — 159–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Jimmy Pruett — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-03-12 House Hopper
• 2013-03-13 House First Readers reading-1
• 2013-03-14 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2013-03-21 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-03-21 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2013-03-21 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2013-03-21 House Immediately Transmitted to Senate
• 2013-03-22 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2013-03-25 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-03-25 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2013-04-02 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2013-05-06 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2013-05-06 Act 152 executive-signature
• 2013-05-06 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/74ee45fc-70d8-4633-bd2f-bfd8a370dcbb. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).