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type: "Bill"
title: "Fulton County Personnel Board and Fulton County Merit System of Personnel Administration; all future employees other than public safety employees shall be unclassified; provisions"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act entitled \"An Act to completely and exhaustively revise, supersede, consolidate, and replace all of the laws and amendments thereto pertaining to the Fulton County Personnel Board and the Fulton County Merit System of Personnel Administration,\" approved April 13, 1982 (Ga. L. 1982, p. 4896), as amended, so as to provide a statement of authority; to define certain terms; to provide that all future employees of Fulton County other than public safety employees shall be unclassified; to provide for current classified employees; to provide that employees may be dismissed, demoted, or disciplined for any reason or no reason without notice, explanation, or appeal; to provide a statement of legislative intent; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2013_14"
identifier: "HB 594"
citation: "Georgia HB 594 (2013_14)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Charles Martin", "Edward Lindsey", "Jan Jones", "Lynne Riley", "Mike Dudgeon", "Rich Golick"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 14
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2013-03-12"
last_action: "2013-05-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1bfae1fc-1b20-4056-b607-40ee899e7e09"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "e9d353840fe947b7365e375be2611104c25316029be4e922b03d98266f63b14b"
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 594 (2013_14) — Fulton County Personnel Board and Fulton County Merit System of Personnel Administration; all future employees other than public safety employees shall be unclassified; provisions
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to completely and exhaustively revise, supersede, consolidate, and replace all of the laws and amendments thereto pertaining to the Fulton County Personnel Board and the Fulton County Merit System of Personnel Administration," approved April 13, 1982 (Ga. L. 1982, p. 4896), as amended, so as to provide a statement of authority; to define certain terms; to provide that all future employees of Fulton County other than public safety employees shall be unclassified; to provide for current classified employees; to provide that employees may be dismissed, demoted, or disciplined for any reason or no reason without notice, explanation, or appeal; to provide a statement of legislative intent; 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 594/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/136664.pdf)
2. **LC 21 2204/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/134262.pdf)
## Votes
- PASSAGE — **106–47** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Charles Martin — primary (person)
- Edward Lindsey — primary (person)
- Jan Jones — primary (person)
- Lynne Riley — primary (person)
- Mike Dudgeon — primary (person)
- Rich Golick — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2013-03-12** House Hopper
- **2013-03-13** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2013-03-14** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2013-03-21** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2013-03-21** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2013-03-21** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2013-03-21** House Immediately Transmitted to Senate
- **2013-03-22** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2013-03-26** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2013-03-26** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2013-04-03** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2013-05-07** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2013-05-07** Act 302 `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/1bfae1fc-1b20-4056-b607-40ee899e7e09`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).