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type: "Bill"
title: "Danielsville, City of; provide for staggered, four-year terms for mayor and council"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act to provide a new charter for the City of Danielsville, approved March 27, 1998 (Ga. L. 1998, p. 3632), as amended, particularly by an Act approved April 9, 1999 (Ga. L. 1999, p. 3714), so as to provide for staggered, four-year terms for the mayor and council; to provide that the city clerk may serve as the city treasurer; to provide that the municipal judge shall be a licensed attorney; to provide that the office of elected officials of the city shall be vacated under certain circumstances; to provide for related matters; to provide for submission under Section 5 of the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2013_14"
identifier: "HB 557"
citation: "Georgia HB 557 (2013_14)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Tom McCall"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 13
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2013-03-07"
last_action: "2013-04-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/16b1aa81-112f-4c04-85ff-675c558d08be"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "3f9e638804bb6420d0d7bc12ec06b6254b3d8d5987e09d2d12c16bee88f9864d"
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 557 (2013_14) — Danielsville, City of; provide for staggered, four-year terms for mayor and council
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act to provide a new charter for the City of Danielsville, approved March 27, 1998 (Ga. L. 1998, p. 3632), as amended, particularly by an Act approved April 9, 1999 (Ga. L. 1999, p. 3714), so as to provide for staggered, four-year terms for the mayor and council; to provide that the city clerk may serve as the city treasurer; to provide that the municipal judge shall be a licensed attorney; to provide that the office of elected officials of the city shall be vacated under certain circumstances; to provide for related matters; to provide for submission under Section 5 of the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended; 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 557/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/135121.pdf)
2. **LC 28 6709/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/133651.pdf)
## Votes
- Local Calendar 3-13-13 — **1643** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Tom McCall — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2013-03-07** House Hopper
- **2013-03-11** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2013-03-12** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2013-03-13** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2013-03-13** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2013-03-13** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2013-03-14** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2013-03-20** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2013-03-20** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2013-04-02** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2013-04-30** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2013-04-30** Act 117 `executive-signature`
- **2013-04-30** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/16b1aa81-112f-4c04-85ff-675c558d08be`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).