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type: "Bill"
title: "Forest Park, City of; councilmember votes for calling special meeting; change number"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act incorporating the City of Forest Park in the County of Clayton, approved March 24, 1988 (Ga. L. 1988, p. 4409), as amended, particularly by an Act approved March 25, 1997 (Ga. L. 1997, p. 3545), so as to change the number of councilmember votes for calling a special meeting, transacting business, overriding a veto, transacting emergency business, removing the city manager, removing a director, removing a member of a board, or removing an officer; to remove a certain provision relating to at-large voting; to provide for submission for preclearance under Section 5 of the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended; to provide for related matters, to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2013_14"
identifier: "HB 5"
citation: "Georgia HB 5 (2013_14)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Darryl Jordan", "Keisha Waites", "Mike Glanton", "Sandra Scott", "Valencia Stovall"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2012-11-19"
last_action: "2013-05-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/732dc8d5-227e-4ab1-aaac-4af08f22e884"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "926f5d2d940257732b1627c59d5c10da4f4f87c52b526e27506cda8cc011d509"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ga"]
---
# Georgia HB 5 (2013_14) — Forest Park, City of; councilmember votes for calling special meeting; change number
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act incorporating the City of Forest Park in the County of Clayton, approved March 24, 1988 (Ga. L. 1988, p. 4409), as amended, particularly by an Act approved March 25, 1997 (Ga. L. 1997, p. 3545), so as to change the number of councilmember votes for calling a special meeting, transacting business, overriding a veto, transacting emergency business, removing the city manager, removing a director, removing a member of a board, or removing an officer; to remove a certain provision relating to at-large voting; to provide for submission for preclearance under Section 5 of the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended; 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 5/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/130413.pdf)
2. **LC 21 1875/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/128426.pdf)
3. **LC 21 1875/pf** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/127998.pdf)
## Votes
- Local Calendar — **1510** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Darryl Jordan — primary (person)
- Keisha Waites — primary (person)
- Mike Glanton — primary (person)
- Sandra Scott — primary (person)
- Valencia Stovall — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2012-11-19** House Prefiled `introduction`
- **2013-01-16** House Hopper
- **2013-01-17** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2013-01-28** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2013-02-04** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2013-02-04** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2013-02-04** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2013-02-05** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2013-02-08** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2013-02-08** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2013-04-01** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2013-05-07** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2013-05-07** Act 329 `executive-signature`
- **2013-05-07** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/732dc8d5-227e-4ab1-aaac-4af08f22e884`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).