republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2019-20/hb-988.md

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Bill	Macon County; board of elections and registration; expand from three to five members	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act to create a board of elections and registration for Macon County and to provide for its powers and duties, approved June 3, 2003 (Ga. L. 2003, p. 4532), so as to expand the board from three to five members; to provide for appointments to the board; to provide for terms of the additional board members; to remove expired and outdated provisions; to provide for related matters; to provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2019_20	HB 988	Georgia HB 988 (2019_20)	bill		enacted	Patty Bentley	3	13	1	2020-02-21	2020-06-30	openstates	ocd-bill/b69ce343-61dc-4727-becb-a66735bd3e44	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	f8aa129c7407cd9a750d121a7511e8533c1d096c3cf18312dd0948d2e7cad32e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 988 (2019_20) — Macon County; board of elections and registration; expand from three to five members

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act to create a board of elections and registration for Macon County and to provide for its powers and duties, approved June 3, 2003 (Ga. L. 2003, p. 4532), so as to expand the board from three to five members; to provide for appointments to the board; to provide for terms of the additional board members; to remove expired and outdated provisions; to provide for related matters; to provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.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 988/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 47 0324/a (committee substitute) — source
3. Local Ad (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Local Calendar — 153–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Patty Bentley — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-02-21 House Hopper
• 2020-02-24 House First Readers reading-1
• 2020-02-25 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2020-03-03 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-03-03 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2020-03-03 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2020-03-04 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2020-03-09 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-03-09 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2020-06-24 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2020-06-30 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2020-06-30 Act 464 executive-signature
• 2020-06-30 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b69ce343-61dc-4727-becb-a66735bd3e44. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).