republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/hb-940.md

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Bill	Forsyth County; position of IT/special projects administrator of the Clerk of Superior Court; exempt application of the civil service system	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend the Forsyth County Civil Service System Act creating the Forsyth County Civil Service System, approved March 13, 1978 (Ga. L. 1978, p. 3572), as amended, particularly by an Ordinance and Resolution adopted by the Board of Commissioners of Forsyth County May 19, 2011 (Ga. L. 2012, p. 5687), so as to exempt the position of IT/special projects administrator of the office of the Clerk of Superior Court of Forsyth County from the application of the Forsyth County civil service system; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	HB 940	Georgia HB 940 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Geoff Duncan Kevin Tanner Mike Dudgeon Sheri Gilligan Wes Cantrell	2	13	1	2016-02-08	2016-04-27	openstates	ocd-bill/9a52c6e2-3ed4-49b0-a887-0b4de8aa4246	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	992d628f21b3545c1cb94f6c651a0690e6fbc944afd08e80dd462530efa7e71f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 940 (2015_16) — Forsyth County; position of IT/special projects administrator of the Clerk of Superior Court; exempt application of the civil service system

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend the Forsyth County Civil Service System Act creating the Forsyth County Civil Service System, approved March 13, 1978 (Ga. L. 1978, p. 3572), as amended, particularly by an Ordinance and Resolution adopted by the Board of Commissioners of Forsyth County May 19, 2011 (Ga. L. 2012, p. 5687), so as to exempt the position of IT/special projects administrator of the office of the Clerk of Superior Court of Forsyth County from the application of the Forsyth County civil service system; 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 940/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 44 0060/a (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Local Calendar — 146–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Geoff Duncan — primary (person)
• Kevin Tanner — primary (person)
• Mike Dudgeon — primary (person)
• Sheri Gilligan — primary (person)
• Wes Cantrell — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-08 House Hopper
• 2016-02-09 House First Readers reading-1
• 2016-02-10 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2016-02-10 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-02-11 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2016-02-11 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2016-02-16 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2016-02-23 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-02-23 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 481 executive-signature
• 2016-04-27 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9a52c6e2-3ed4-49b0-a887-0b4de8aa4246. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).