republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/sb-359.md

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Bill	City of Stockbridge; terminate the employment of appointed officers upon such persons qualifying to seek public office	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act to provide a new charter for the City of Stockbridge, approved April 4, 1991 (Ga. L. 1991, p. 4359), as amended, so as to terminate the employment of appointed officers upon such persons qualifying to seek public office; to provide for the termination of employees upon qualifying to seek public office in certain circumstances; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	SB 359	Georgia SB 359 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Emanuel Jones Rick Jeffares	4	13	1	2016-02-10	2016-04-26	openstates	ocd-bill/c6871655-4fae-4d6a-8055-84f1d95795d2	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	d1e2c45d7985c411fb36366274ab366113100a271cb9ee29cfe267435631c890	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 359 (2015_16) — City of Stockbridge; terminate the employment of appointed officers upon such persons qualifying to seek public office

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act to provide a new charter for the City of Stockbridge, approved April 4, 1991 (Ga. L. 1991, p. 4359), as amended, so as to terminate the employment of appointed officers upon such persons qualifying to seek public office; to provide for the termination of employees upon qualifying to seek public office in certain circumstances; 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. As introduced LC 28 7909 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. SB 359 ad (committee substitute) — source
4. SB 359/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• LOCAL CONSENT CALENDAR — 53–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Emanuel Jones — primary (person)
• Rick Jeffares — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-10 Senate Hopper
• 2016-02-11 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2016-02-23 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-02-23 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2016-02-24 House First Readers reading-1
• 2016-02-25 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2016-03-08 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-03-08 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2016-03-08 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2016-03-29 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2016-04-26 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2016-04-26 Act 389 executive-signature
• 2016-04-26 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c6871655-4fae-4d6a-8055-84f1d95795d2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).