republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/hb-554.md

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Bill	Henry County; Board of Commissioners; authority, roles, and responsibilities of chairperson, board of commissioners and county manager; define	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to amend an Act providing for a new Board of Commissioners of Henry County," approved March 24, 1974 (Ga. L. 1974, p. 3680), as amended, particularly by an Act approved April 4, 1990 (Ga. L. 1990, p. 5232), so as to further define the authority, roles, and responsibilities of the chairperson, the board of commissioners, and the county manager; to provide for compensation; to provide for related matters; to provide for effective dates; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	HB 554	Georgia HB 554 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Andrew Welch Brian Strickland John Yates Pam Stephenson Roger Rutledge Sandra Scott	2	15	1	2015-03-04	2015-03-27	openstates	ocd-bill/31e39f2b-9739-41cb-b246-14de44b83456	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	79cd366de3863770f764685196b017c2c792cd333fc7186de201e278caff7f7d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 554 (2015_16) — Henry County; Board of Commissioners; authority, roles, and responsibilities of chairperson, board of commissioners and county manager; define

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to amend an Act providing for a new Board of Commissioners of Henry County," approved March 24, 1974 (Ga. L. 1974, p. 3680), as amended, particularly by an Act approved April 4, 1990 (Ga. L. 1990, p. 5232), so as to further define the authority, roles, and responsibilities of the chairperson, the board of commissioners, and the county manager; to provide for compensation; to provide for related matters; 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 554/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 28 7573ER/a (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Local Calendar — 165–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Andrew Welch — primary (person)
• Brian Strickland — primary (person)
• John Yates — primary (person)
• Pam Stephenson — primary (person)
• Roger Rutledge — primary (person)
• Sandra Scott — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-03-04 House Hopper
• 2015-03-05 House First Readers reading-1
• 2015-03-09 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2015-03-11 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-03-11 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2015-03-11 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2015-03-13 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2015-03-19 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-03-20 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2015-03-23 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2015-03-23 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2015-03-27 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2015-03-27 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2015-03-27 Act 12 executive-signature
• 2015-03-27 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/31e39f2b-9739-41cb-b246-14de44b83456. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).