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type: "Bill"
title: "Glennville, City of; change description of wards"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act creating a new charter for the City of Glennville, approved August 21, 1911 (Ga. L. 1911, p. 1228), as amended, particularly by an Act approved March 28, 1985 (Ga. L. 1985, p. 4756), so as to change the description of the wards; to provide for definitions and inclusions; to provide for manner of election; to provide for the continuation in office of current members; to provide for the submission of this Act 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 640"
citation: "Georgia HB 640 (2013_14)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Delvis Dutton"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 13
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2013-03-20"
last_action: "2013-05-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/18015fed-3105-4727-b693-f733b3c6b663"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "de4e0dd86be414dcd274099a735f90b148a2875c0f9eae3c346a102bb9c0fba9"
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 640 (2013_14) — Glennville, City of; change description of wards
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act creating a new charter for the City of Glennville, approved August 21, 1911 (Ga. L. 1911, p. 1228), as amended, particularly by an Act approved March 28, 1985 (Ga. L. 1985, p. 4756), so as to change the description of the wards; to provide for definitions and inclusions; to provide for manner of election; to provide for the continuation in office of current members; to provide for the submission of this Act 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 640/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/136774.pdf)
2. **LC 28 6708/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/134877.pdf)
## Votes
- Local Calendar — **150–0** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Delvis Dutton — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2013-03-20** House Hopper
- **2013-03-20** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2013-03-21** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2013-03-25** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2013-03-25** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2013-03-25** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2013-03-25** 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`
- **2013-05-06** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2013-05-06** Act 156 `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/18015fed-3105-4727-b693-f733b3c6b663`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).