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type: "Bill"
title: "Hoschton, City of; manner of election of the mayor and councilmembers; provide"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act to provide for a new charter for the City of Hoschton, Georgia, approved April 24, 2013 (Ga. L. 2013, p. 3539), so as to provide for the manner of election of the mayor and councilmembers; 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 799"
citation: "Georgia HB 799 (2015_16)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Tommy Benton"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 13
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2016-01-21"
last_action: "2016-04-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/19a4806e-2933-47d4-a4ca-05439bb974f2"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "ae9414aa4dc9bfcf3b92f5ecc8a6264056eb300df44513d69ba5553f80b46181"
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 799 (2015_16) — Hoschton, City of; manner of election of the mayor and councilmembers; provide
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act to provide for a new charter for the City of Hoschton, Georgia, approved April 24, 2013 (Ga. L. 2013, p. 3539), so as to provide for the manner of election of the mayor and councilmembers; 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 799/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/157454.pdf)
2. **LC 28 7825/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/155010.pdf)
## Votes
- Local Calendar — **1540** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Tommy Benton — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2016-01-21** House Hopper
- **2016-01-22** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2016-01-25** 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`
- **2016-02-11** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2016-02-11** 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 447 `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/19a4806e-2933-47d4-a4ca-05439bb974f2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).