republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/hb-880.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	St. Marys, City of; manner of election of mayor and council; provide	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act providing for a new charter for the City of St. Marys, Georgia, approved April 9, 1981 (Ga. L. 1981, p. 4763), as amended, so as to provide for the manner of election of the mayor and council; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	HB 880	Georgia HB 880 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Jason Spencer John Corbett	2	13	1	2016-02-01	2016-04-27	openstates	ocd-bill/804ae7b8-418f-4790-81ef-41028849de2a	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	03d6be1793775cf6742c949869fbc025807fefe397196905307f46e5d15ee0e8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 880 (2015_16) — St. Marys, City of; manner of election of mayor and council; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act providing for a new charter for the City of St. Marys, Georgia, approved April 9, 1981 (Ga. L. 1981, p. 4763), as amended, so as to provide for the manner of election of the mayor and council; 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 880/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 28 7834/a (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Local Calendar — 153–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Jason Spencer — primary (person)
• John Corbett — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-01 House Hopper
• 2016-02-02 House First Readers reading-1
• 2016-02-03 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2016-02-04 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-02-04 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2016-02-04 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2016-02-08 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2016-02-19 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-02-19 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2016-03-28 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2016-04-27 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2016-04-27 Act 465 executive-signature
• 2016-04-27 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/804ae7b8-418f-4790-81ef-41028849de2a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).