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type: "Bill"
title: "Manchester, City of; filling of vacancies of the governing authority; change provisions"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act providing a new charter for the City of Manchester, approved August 16, 1909 (Ga. L. 1909, p. 1071), as amended, particularly by an Act approved August 20, 1923 (Ga. L. 1923, p. 739), an Act approved March 28, 1990 (Ga. L. 1990, p. 4980), and an Act approved April 10, 2014 (Ga. L. 2014, p. 3692), so as to change provisions relating to the filling of vacancies in the offices of members of the governing authority; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2015_16"
identifier: "HB 786"
citation: "Georgia HB 786 (2015_16)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Debbie Buckner"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 13
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2016-01-20"
last_action: "2016-04-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/af5e1e33-4996-4365-bdfc-64c9be10220a"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "9fb87e1747ce62d895603512114b732bb4829ecfba7d0860f485bdd3646d5e2f"
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 786 (2015_16) — Manchester, City of; filling of vacancies of the governing authority; change provisions
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act providing a new charter for the City of Manchester, approved August 16, 1909 (Ga. L. 1909, p. 1071), as amended, particularly by an Act approved August 20, 1923 (Ga. L. 1923, p. 739), an Act approved March 28, 1990 (Ga. L. 1990, p. 4980), and an Act approved April 10, 2014 (Ga. L. 2014, p. 3692), so as to change provisions relating to the filling of vacancies in the offices of members of the governing authority; 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 786/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/160484.pdf)
2. **LC 44 0016/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/154814.pdf)
## Votes
- Local Calendar — **1540** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Debbie Buckner — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2016-01-20** House Hopper
- **2016-01-21** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2016-01-22** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2016-01-26** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2016-01-26** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2016-01-26** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2016-01-27** 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`
- **2016-04-26** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2016-04-26** Act 445 `executive-signature`
- **2016-04-26** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/af5e1e33-4996-4365-bdfc-64c9be10220a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).