republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/hb-1053.md

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Bill	Grady County; board of education; provide that members shall be elected on a nonpartisan basis	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act creating a new board of education of Grady County, approved March 5, 1968 (Ga. L. 1968, p. 2120), as amended, so as to provide that members of the board of education shall be elected on a nonpartisan basis; to provide for continuation in office of current members of the board; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	HB 1053	Georgia HB 1053 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Darlene Taylor	2	16	1	2016-02-19	2016-05-03	openstates	ocd-bill/d78e8fc6-b5ef-44e7-902e-6e14d80e8804	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	e1db8d0dc703ece4a219f7900d04d5ff2d25f0f4297207f8b9d8ad6eaa3437a3	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 1053 (2015_16) — Grady County; board of education; provide that members shall be elected on a nonpartisan basis

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act creating a new board of education of Grady County, approved March 5, 1968 (Ga. L. 1968, p. 2120), as amended, so as to provide that members of the board of education shall be elected on a nonpartisan basis; to provide for continuation in office of current members of the board; to provide for related matters; 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 1053/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 40 1125/a (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 74–81 (fail) · lower

Sponsors

• Darlene Taylor — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-19 House Hopper
• 2016-02-22 House First Readers reading-1
• 2016-02-23 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2016-02-24 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-02-26 House Postponed
• 2016-02-29 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2016-02-29 House Third Reading Lost failure, reading-3
• 2016-02-29 House Reconsidered
• 2016-02-29 House Passed/Adopted Reconsidered Bill/Resolution
• 2016-03-02 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2016-03-14 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-03-14 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2016-03-28 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2016-05-03 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2016-05-03 Act 566 executive-signature
• 2016-05-03 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d78e8fc6-b5ef-44e7-902e-6e14d80e8804. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).