republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/hb-73.md

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Bill	Public officers; counties and municipalities provide by local law for district durational residency requirements; authorize	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 45-2-1 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to persons ineligible to hold office, vacation of office, and validity of acts performed while in office, so as to authorize counties and municipalities to provide by local law for district durational residency requirements; to provide for related matters; to provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	HB 73	Georgia HB 73 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Buzz Brockway Darlene Taylor Dustin Hightower Mark Hamilton Michael Caldwell Scot Turner	2	19	1	2015-01-15	2016-05-03	openstates	ocd-bill/b0a254ad-49b4-4f40-8f47-60d7c69c6ae4	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	40e1eb9c655711e71bdf81eec2af054fdf5c74f6e12964151fe518107f4c06eb	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 73 (2015_16) — Public officers; counties and municipalities provide by local law for district durational residency requirements; authorize

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 45-2-1 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to persons ineligible to hold office, vacation of office, and validity of acts performed while in office, so as to authorize counties and municipalities to provide by local law for district durational residency requirements; to provide for related matters; to provide 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 73/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 28 7301/a (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 130–39 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Buzz Brockway — primary (person)
• Darlene Taylor — primary (person)
• Dustin Hightower — primary (person)
• Mark Hamilton — primary (person)
• Michael Caldwell — primary (person)
• Scot Turner — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-01-15 House Hopper
• 2015-01-26 House First Readers reading-1
• 2015-01-27 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2015-02-12 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-02-20 House Postponed
• 2015-02-23 House Postponed
• 2015-02-24 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2015-02-24 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2015-02-25 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2015-03-05 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-03-09 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2016-01-11 Senate Recommitted referral-committee
• 2016-02-03 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-03-16 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2016-03-16 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2016-03-28 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2016-05-03 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2016-05-03 Act 601 executive-signature
• 2016-05-03 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b0a254ad-49b4-4f40-8f47-60d7c69c6ae4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).