republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/hb-1136.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	Rome, City of; residency qualifications for members of the governing authority; change	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act creating a new charter for the City of Rome, approved August 19, 1918 (Ga. L. 1918, p. 813), as amended, particularly by an Act approved March 16, 1983 (Ga. L. 1983, p. 4188), an Ordinance adopted by the Rome City Commission June 15, 1987 (Ga. L. 1988, p. 5404), an Ordinance adopted by the Rome City Commission August 4, 1997 (Ga. L. 1998, p. 4849), and an Ordinance adopted by the Rome City Commission September 3, 2002 (Ga. L. 2004, p. 4756), so as to change qualifications for members of the governing authority to include residency in the ward in which they seek office; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	HB 1136	Georgia HB 1136 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Christian Coomer Eddie Lumsden Katie Dempsey	2	14	1	2016-03-08	2016-05-03	openstates	ocd-bill/c7ddb34b-2603-4ae6-889c-d9084b54e6ea	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	f519b7a7e385a2f8d6ba883699b0feba225093cde9ff8b965edb874207279b3a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 1136 (2015_16) — Rome, City of; residency qualifications for members of the governing authority; change

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act creating a new charter for the City of Rome, approved August 19, 1918 (Ga. L. 1918, p. 813), as amended, particularly by an Act approved March 16, 1983 (Ga. L. 1983, p. 4188), an Ordinance adopted by the Rome City Commission June 15, 1987 (Ga. L. 1988, p. 5404), an Ordinance adopted by the Rome City Commission August 4, 1997 (Ga. L. 1998, p. 4849), and an Ordinance adopted by the Rome City Commission September 3, 2002 (Ga. L. 2004, p. 4756), so as to change qualifications for members of the governing authority to include residency in the ward in which they seek office; 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.

1. HB 1136/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 44 0097/a (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Local Calendar — 160–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Christian Coomer — primary (person)
• Eddie Lumsden — primary (person)
• Katie Dempsey — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-03-08 House Hopper
• 2016-03-10 House First Readers reading-1
• 2016-03-11 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2016-03-14 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-03-14 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2016-03-14 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2016-03-14 House Immediately Transmitted to Senate
• 2016-03-15 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2016-03-22 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-03-22 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2016-03-29 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2016-05-03 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2016-05-03 Act 587 executive-signature
• 2016-05-03 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c7ddb34b-2603-4ae6-889c-d9084b54e6ea. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).