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type: "Bill"
title: "Chattahoochee Judicial Circuit; provide for selection of chief judge"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend a general Act entitled \"An Act to amend Chapter 6 of Title 15 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the superior courts,\" approved March 27, 2000 (Ga. L. 2000, p. 205), so as to provide for the selection of the chief judge of the Chattahoochee Judicial Circuit; to provide for terms of office; to provide for filling vacancies in such office; 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 506"
citation: "Georgia HB 506 (2013_14)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Calvin Smyre", "Carolyn Hugley", "John Pezold", "Richard Smith"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 17
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2013-02-27"
last_action: "2014-04-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/365aff63-b9f9-4eb4-9f44-e36f411384ba"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "cb8e43ce0c19b7e8a68a6cf6da6c5074e91f546cb2a3af74f66df1e1a929ebe1"
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 506 (2013_14) — Chattahoochee Judicial Circuit; provide for selection of chief judge
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend a general Act entitled "An Act to amend Chapter 6 of Title 15 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the superior courts," approved March 27, 2000 (Ga. L. 2000, p. 205), so as to provide for the selection of the chief judge of the Chattahoochee Judicial Circuit; to provide for terms of office; to provide for filling vacancies in such office; 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 506/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/137106.pdf)
2. **LC 21 2152/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/132630.pdf)
## Votes
- PASSAGE — **166–2** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Calvin Smyre — primary (person)
- Carolyn Hugley — primary (person)
- John Pezold — primary (person)
- Richard Smith — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2013-02-27** House Hopper
- **2013-02-28** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2013-03-01** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2013-03-05** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2013-03-07** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2013-03-07** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2013-03-11** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2013-03-21** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2013-03-21** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2013-03-26** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2013-03-26** Senate Tabled
- **2013-03-28** Senate Taken from Table
- **2013-03-28** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2013-04-04** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2013-05-07** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2013-05-07** Act 293 `executive-signature`
- **2014-04-15** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/365aff63-b9f9-4eb4-9f44-e36f411384ba`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).