republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/hb-786.md

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Bill	Manchester, City of; filling of vacancies of the governing authority; change provisions	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act providing a new charter for the City of Manchester, approved August 16, 1909 (Ga. L. 1909, p. 1071), as amended, particularly by an Act approved August 20, 1923 (Ga. L. 1923, p. 739), an Act approved March 28, 1990 (Ga. L. 1990, p. 4980), and an Act approved April 10, 2014 (Ga. L. 2014, p. 3692), so as to change provisions relating to the filling of vacancies in the offices of members of the governing authority; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	HB 786	Georgia HB 786 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Debbie Buckner	2	13	1	2016-01-20	2016-04-26	openstates	ocd-bill/af5e1e33-4996-4365-bdfc-64c9be10220a	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	9fb87e1747ce62d895603512114b732bb4829ecfba7d0860f485bdd3646d5e2f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 786 (2015_16) — Manchester, City of; filling of vacancies of the governing authority; change provisions

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act providing a new charter for the City of Manchester, approved August 16, 1909 (Ga. L. 1909, p. 1071), as amended, particularly by an Act approved August 20, 1923 (Ga. L. 1923, p. 739), an Act approved March 28, 1990 (Ga. L. 1990, p. 4980), and an Act approved April 10, 2014 (Ga. L. 2014, p. 3692), so as to change provisions relating to the filling of vacancies in the offices of members of the governing authority; 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 786/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 44 0016/a (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Local Calendar — 154–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Debbie Buckner — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-01-20 House Hopper
• 2016-01-21 House First Readers reading-1
• 2016-01-22 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2016-01-26 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-01-26 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2016-01-26 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2016-01-27 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2016-03-14 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-03-14 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2016-03-28 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2016-04-26 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2016-04-26 Act 445 executive-signature
• 2016-04-26 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/af5e1e33-4996-4365-bdfc-64c9be10220a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).