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type: "Bill"
title: "Telfair County; Board of Education; change description of districts"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act reapportioning the election districts of the Board of Education of Telfair County, approved April 11, 1979 (Ga. L. 1979, p. 3539), as amended, particularly by an Act approved May 1, 2002 (Ga. L. 2002, p. 5385), so as to redistrict the Board of Education of Telfair County; to change the description of the education districts; to provide for the continuation in office of the current members and the election of subsequent members; to provide for related matters; to provide for submission of this Act for preclearance under Section 5 of the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2013_14"
identifier: "HB 596"
citation: "Georgia HB 596 (2013_14)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jimmy Pruett"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 14
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2013-03-12"
last_action: "2013-05-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/74ee45fc-70d8-4633-bd2f-bfd8a370dcbb"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "a785a6db356e18de89f11e5e9b94c451f920e1003a6bcef8a0f909993f1dfcc2"
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 596 (2013_14) — Telfair County; Board of Education; change description of districts
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act reapportioning the election districts of the Board of Education of Telfair County, approved April 11, 1979 (Ga. L. 1979, p. 3539), as amended, particularly by an Act approved May 1, 2002 (Ga. L. 2002, p. 5385), so as to redistrict the Board of Education of Telfair County; to change the description of the education districts; to provide for the continuation in office of the current members and the election of subsequent members; to provide for related matters; to provide for submission of this Act for preclearance under Section 5 of the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended; to provide for an effective date; 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 596/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/136372.pdf)
2. **LC 40 0278/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/134270.pdf)
## Votes
- Local Calendar Without HBs 380, 594, 598, 604 — **1590** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Jimmy Pruett — 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`
- **2013-03-25** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2013-03-25** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2013-04-02** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2013-05-06** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2013-05-06** Act 152 `executive-signature`
- **2013-05-06** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/74ee45fc-70d8-4633-bd2f-bfd8a370dcbb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).