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Bill	Columbus, City of; Municipal Court; provide that the sheriff of Muscogee County shall be the ex officio marshal of said court	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act establishing the Municipal Court of Columbus, Georgia, approved August 12, 1915 (Ga. L. 1915, p. 63), as amended, particularly by an Act approved March 29, 1983 (Ga. L. 1983, p. 4443) and an Act approved June 2, 2010 (Ga. L. 2010, p. 3956), so as to provide that the sheriff of Muscogee County shall be the ex officio marshal of said court; to consolidate said marshal's office into the said sheriff's department; to provide for related matters; to provide for effective dates; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2019_20	HB 967	Georgia HB 967 (2019_20)	bill		enacted	Calvin Smyre Carolyn Hugley Debbie Buckner Richard Smith Vance Smith	3	14	1	2020-02-20	2020-02-28	openstates	ocd-bill/9e5c4244-eece-4a23-9eef-4da21bfb8cbe	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	319c78f6308ece858db6ee1f62f0a227decab01d6d880a4fa34d4b13bf207596	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 967 (2019_20) — Columbus, City of; Municipal Court; provide that the sheriff of Muscogee County shall be the ex officio marshal of said court

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act establishing the Municipal Court of Columbus, Georgia, approved August 12, 1915 (Ga. L. 1915, p. 63), as amended, particularly by an Act approved March 29, 1983 (Ga. L. 1983, p. 4443) and an Act approved June 2, 2010 (Ga. L. 2010, p. 3956), so as to provide that the sheriff of Muscogee County shall be the ex officio marshal of said court; to consolidate said marshal's office into the said sheriff's department; to provide for related matters; to provide for effective dates; 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 967/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 47 0326/a (committee substitute) — source
3. Local Ad (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Local Calendar — 157–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Calvin Smyre — primary (person)
• Carolyn Hugley — primary (person)
• Debbie Buckner — primary (person)
• Richard Smith — primary (person)
• Vance Smith — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-02-20 House Hopper
• 2020-02-21 House First Readers reading-1
• 2020-02-24 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2020-02-25 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-02-25 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2020-02-25 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2020-02-25 House Immediately Transmitted to Senate
• 2020-02-25 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2020-02-27 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-02-27 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2020-02-28 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2020-02-28 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2020-02-28 Act 325 executive-signature
• 2020-02-28 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9e5c4244-eece-4a23-9eef-4da21bfb8cbe. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).