republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2013-14/sb-423.md

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Bill	City of Berkeley Lake; change number of councilmembers required for a quorum with the mayor	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act to provide a new charter for the City of Berkeley Lake, approved April 9, 1999 (Ga. L. 1999, p. 3636), as amended, so as to change the number of councilmembers required for a quorum with the mayor; to provide that the mayor pro tempore may vote in the event of a tie when presiding in the mayor's absences; to reaffirm the current city boundary; to provide for related matters; to provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2013_14	SB 423	Georgia SB 423 (2013_14)	bill		enacted	David Shafer	4	13	1	2014-03-03	2014-04-10	openstates	ocd-bill/6011b801-76a5-43c5-af63-667e106fb7fe	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	bbd8c387768feb68fcaa3857381e8b33f690bdf000d66629214ca3410461b309	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 423 (2013_14) — City of Berkeley Lake; change number of councilmembers required for a quorum with the mayor

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act to provide a new charter for the City of Berkeley Lake, approved April 9, 1999 (Ga. L. 1999, p. 3636), as amended, so as to change the number of councilmembers required for a quorum with the mayor; to provide that the mayor pro tempore may vote in the event of a tie when presiding in the mayor's absences; to reaffirm the current city boundary; to provide for related matters; to provide 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. As introduced LC 28 7163ER (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. SB 423 ad (committee substitute) — source
4. SB 423/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• LOCAL CONSENT CALENDAR — 48–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• David Shafer — primary (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2014-03-03 Senate Hopper
• 2014-03-04 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2014-03-11 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2014-03-11 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2014-03-12 House First Readers reading-1
• 2014-03-13 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2014-03-18 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2014-03-18 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2014-03-18 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2014-03-27 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2014-04-10 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2014-04-10 Act 472 executive-signature
• 2014-04-10 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6011b801-76a5-43c5-af63-667e106fb7fe. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).