republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2013-14/hb-417.md

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Bill	Columbus, City of; make certain stylistic changes to charter	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act providing for a new charter for the county-wide government of Columbus, Georgia, approved April 5, 1993 (Ga. L. 1993, p. 4978), as amended, so as to make certain stylistic changes to said charter; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2013_14	HB 417	Georgia HB 417 (2013_14)	bill		enacted	Calvin Smyre Carolyn Hugley Debbie Buckner John Pezold Richard Smith	2	13	1	2013-02-20	2013-04-24	openstates	ocd-bill/bbe72a84-8af0-474f-a5b4-2524021bc552	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	d6697dc2d3942fae0a1445dd6612302370cf157b9fdb5feb259b3b87128754ab	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 417 (2013_14) — Columbus, City of; make certain stylistic changes to charter

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act providing for a new charter for the county-wide government of Columbus, Georgia, approved April 5, 1993 (Ga. L. 1993, p. 4978), as amended, so as to make certain stylistic changes to said charter; 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 417/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 21 1948/a (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Local Calendar — 156–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

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

Timeline

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

• 2013-02-20 House Hopper
• 2013-02-21 House First Readers reading-1
• 2013-02-22 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2013-02-25 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-02-25 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2013-02-25 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2013-02-26 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2013-02-28 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-02-28 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2013-04-01 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2013-04-24 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2013-04-24 Act 64 executive-signature
• 2013-04-24 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/bbe72a84-8af0-474f-a5b4-2524021bc552. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).