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type: "Bill"
title: "Fulton County; county-wide library system; specify name for system; provisions"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act providing for the establishment of a county-wide library system in Fulton County, approved April 12, 1982 (Ga. L. 1982, p. 4174), as amended, particularly by an Act approved May 17, 2004 (Ga. L. 2004, p. 4347), so as to specify a name for the county-wide library system; to change membership, the number of members, and the selection of members of the library board of trustees; to provide for vacancies; to provide for the selection of the executive director of the library system and to whom the executive director shall report; to provide for related matters; to provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2015_16"
identifier: "HB 595"
citation: "Georgia HB 595 (2015_16)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Beth Beskin", "Charles Martin", "Harry Geisinger", "Jan Jones", "Joe Wilkinson", "Rich Golick"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 13
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2015-03-11"
last_action: "2015-05-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/75ebd71d-efd9-4f22-b433-6a819ce5ab1d"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "f912bf538c99f2e3c0f78a223a7f1ce330154a7773c7f318d8eadd296077d0d0"
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 595 (2015_16) — Fulton County; county-wide library system; specify name for system; provisions
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act providing for the establishment of a county-wide library system in Fulton County, approved April 12, 1982 (Ga. L. 1982, p. 4174), as amended, particularly by an Act approved May 17, 2004 (Ga. L. 2004, p. 4347), so as to specify a name for the county-wide library system; to change membership, the number of members, and the selection of members of the library board of trustees; to provide for vacancies; to provide for the selection of the executive director of the library system and to whom the executive director shall report; 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. **HB 595/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/152759.pdf)
2. **LC 28 7581/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/150837.pdf)
## Votes
- Local Calendar — **1620** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Beth Beskin — primary (person)
- Charles Martin — primary (person)
- Harry Geisinger — primary (person)
- Jan Jones — primary (person)
- Joe Wilkinson — primary (person)
- Rich Golick — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2015-03-11** House Hopper
- **2015-03-11** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2015-03-13** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2015-03-18** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-03-18** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2015-03-18** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2015-03-19** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-26** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-03-26** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2015-04-06** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2015-05-12** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2015-05-12** Act 263 `executive-signature`
- **2015-05-12** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/75ebd71d-efd9-4f22-b433-6a819ce5ab1d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).