republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/hb-398.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	Monticello, City of; dissolve municipal court	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act to incorporate and grant a new charter to the City of Monticello, approved March 10, 1959 (Ga. L. 1959, p. 2683), as amended, so as to dissolve the municipal court; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	HB 398	Georgia HB 398 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Susan Holmes	2	13	1	2015-02-19	2015-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/e6a5689e-e450-4d42-bf28-b939d9bc1354	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	a1a82eb671a8e9c3fa4c8e0371c8fda13f08674c7fd5437c928fe2c8ce8f9ea8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 398 (2015_16) — Monticello, City of; dissolve municipal court

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act to incorporate and grant a new charter to the City of Monticello, approved March 10, 1959 (Ga. L. 1959, p. 2683), as amended, so as to dissolve the municipal court; to provide for related matters; 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 398/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 28 7500ER/a (committee substitute) — source

Votes

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

Sponsors

• Susan Holmes — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-19 House Hopper
• 2015-02-20 House First Readers reading-1
• 2015-02-23 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2015-02-25 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-02-25 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2015-02-25 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2015-02-26 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2015-03-04 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-03-04 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2015-04-06 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2015-05-06 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2015-05-06 Act 161 executive-signature
• 2015-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e6a5689e-e450-4d42-bf28-b939d9bc1354. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).