republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2023-24/hb-1494.md

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Bill	Garden City, City of; mayor and mayor pro tempore and organizational meetings of city council; revise provisions	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act creating a new charter for the City of Garden City, approved April 17, 1973 (Ga. L. 1973, p. 3581), as amended, so as to revise provisions regarding the mayor and the mayor pro tempore and organizational meetings of the city council; to provide for an effective date; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2023_24	HB 1494	Georgia HB 1494 (2023_24)	bill		enacted	Anne Allen Westbrook Bill Hitchens Carl Gilliard Edna Jackson Ron Stephens	3	13	2	2024-03-14	2024-05-06	openstates	ocd-bill/f6cfe753-86b3-4f57-be5f-06445bc56f31	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	3b53a50b559cd461acaf32fc6d9e48c8bb1ebbbc8f5979a379a6fe8866fb4ff6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 1494 (2023_24) — Garden City, City of; mayor and mayor pro tempore and organizational meetings of city council; revise provisions

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act creating a new charter for the City of Garden City, approved April 17, 1973 (Ga. L. 1973, p. 3581), as amended, so as to revise provisions regarding the mayor and the mayor pro tempore and organizational meetings of the city council; to provide for an effective date; 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 1494/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 44 2813/a (committee substitute) — source
3. Local Ad (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate Vote #823 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 54–1 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #728 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 160–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Anne Allen Westbrook — primary (person)
• Bill Hitchens — primary (person)
• Carl Gilliard — primary (person)
• Edna Jackson — primary (person)
• Ron Stephens — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-03-14 House Hopper introduction
• 2024-03-18 House First Readers reading-1
• 2024-03-20 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2024-03-21 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-21 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2024-03-21 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2024-03-26 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2024-03-26 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-28 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2024-04-02 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-05-06 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2024-05-06 Act 689 executive-signature
• 2024-05-06 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f6cfe753-86b3-4f57-be5f-06445bc56f31. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).