republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2019-20/hb-990.md

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Bill	Screven, City of; terms of mayor and city council; revise	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act to provide a new charter for the City of Screven, approved March 9, 1959 (Ga. L. 1959, p. 2203), as amended, particularly by an Act approved June 30, 1964 (Ga. L. 1964 Ex. Sess., p. 2114), so as to revise the terms of the mayor and city council; to provide for election dates; to revise meeting dates for the city council; to revise the powers of the mayor; to remove provisions related to the police court; to provide for a municipal court; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2019_20	HB 990	Georgia HB 990 (2019_20)	bill		enacted	Bill Werkheiser Steven Meeks	3	13	1	2020-02-21	2020-06-30	openstates	ocd-bill/20a0c6cf-31d1-4e53-84de-01cb1d37e32b	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	b756fc1cf76e90e12ba8bba8e7fc3f0ebab0b6817344d5990fbac399683d680a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 990 (2019_20) — Screven, City of; terms of mayor and city council; revise

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act to provide a new charter for the City of Screven, approved March 9, 1959 (Ga. L. 1959, p. 2203), as amended, particularly by an Act approved June 30, 1964 (Ga. L. 1964 Ex. Sess., p. 2114), so as to revise the terms of the mayor and city council; to provide for election dates; to revise meeting dates for the city council; to revise the powers of the mayor; to remove provisions related to the police court; to provide for a municipal court; 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 990/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 47 0322/a (committee substitute) — source
3. Local Ad (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Local Calendar — 142–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bill Werkheiser — primary (person)
• Steven Meeks — 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
• 2020-02-28 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-02-28 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2020-02-28 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2020-03-02 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2020-03-05 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-03-05 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 465 executive-signature
• 2020-06-30 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/20a0c6cf-31d1-4e53-84de-01cb1d37e32b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).