republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/hb-597.md

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Bill	DeKalb County; board of commissioners; change jurisdiction of Board of Ethics	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act revising, superseding, and consolidating the laws relating to the governing authority of DeKalb County and creating a chairman and board of commissioners of said county, approved March 8, 1956 (Ga. L. 1956, p. 3237), as amended, particularly by an Act approved April 9, 1981 (Ga. L. 1981, p. 4304), an Act approved March 20, 1990 (Ga. L. 1990, p. 3900), and an Act approved April 13, 1992 (Ga. L. 1992, p. 6137), so as to change the jurisdiction of the Board of Ethics of DeKalb County; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	HB 597	Georgia HB 597 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Billy Mitchell Dar'shun Kendrick Mary Oliver Mike Jacobs Scott Holcomb Stacey Abrams	2	13	1	2015-03-11	2015-05-12	openstates	ocd-bill/d2fe1fb8-d100-4b99-aee6-9a8b0fcf0c8f	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	e8d5f384799c8f72af3ad74d3de3f67a40b6dba299e998f86f7a9b3d88fdad2a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 597 (2015_16) — DeKalb County; board of commissioners; change jurisdiction of Board of Ethics

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act revising, superseding, and consolidating the laws relating to the governing authority of DeKalb County and creating a chairman and board of commissioners of said county, approved March 8, 1956 (Ga. L. 1956, p. 3237), as amended, particularly by an Act approved April 9, 1981 (Ga. L. 1981, p. 4304), an Act approved March 20, 1990 (Ga. L. 1990, p. 3900), and an Act approved April 13, 1992 (Ga. L. 1992, p. 6137), so as to change the jurisdiction of the Board of Ethics of DeKalb County; 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 597/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 28 7585ER/a (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Local Calendar — 156–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Billy Mitchell — primary (person)
• Dar'shun Kendrick — primary (person)
• Mary Oliver — primary (person)
• Mike Jacobs — primary (person)
• Scott Holcomb — primary (person)
• Stacey Abrams — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-03-11 House Hopper
• 2015-03-13 House First Readers reading-1
• 2015-03-18 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2015-03-19 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-03-19 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2015-03-19 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2015-03-20 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2015-03-24 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-03-24 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2015-04-06 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2015-05-12 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2015-05-12 Act 204 executive-signature
• 2015-05-12 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d2fe1fb8-d100-4b99-aee6-9a8b0fcf0c8f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).