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type: "Bill"
title: "Barrow County; commission to study whether such county and all municipal corporations should be reconstituted as a single consolidated government; provide referendum"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to provide for a nonbinding, advisory referendum for the purpose of ascertaining whether an independent commission, consisting of representatives of the county and all municipal corporations located wholly or partially within such county, should be created to study whether Barrow County and the municipal corporations located wholly within Barrow County should be reconstituted as a single consolidated government; to provide for the configuration of such independent commission; to provide for an independent contractor to conduct a study; to limit the cost of such study; to provide for procedures and requirements relating thereto; to provide for a referendum; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2017_18"
identifier: "HB 1033"
citation: "Georgia HB 1033 (2017_18)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Deborah Gonzalez", "Terry England", "Tom Kirby"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 14
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2018-03-07"
last_action: "2018-03-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f4a4756c-4916-4717-9477-b34649bb73b5"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "78476afec4873a712535f7e015a15147514ac15a8feb8992024bda1e194879e4"
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 1033 (2017_18) — Barrow County; commission to study whether such county and all municipal corporations should be reconstituted as a single consolidated government; provide referendum
A BILL to be entitled an Act to provide for a nonbinding, advisory referendum for the purpose of ascertaining whether an independent commission, consisting of representatives of the county and all municipal corporations located wholly or partially within such county, should be created to study whether Barrow County and the municipal corporations located wholly within Barrow County should be reconstituted as a single consolidated government; to provide for the configuration of such independent commission; to provide for an independent contractor to conduct a study; to limit the cost of such study; to provide for procedures and requirements relating thereto; to provide for a referendum; 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.
## Votes
- Local Calendar — **1560** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Deborah Gonzalez — primary (person)
- Terry England — primary (person)
- Tom Kirby — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-03-07** House Hopper
- **2018-03-09** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2018-03-12** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2018-03-14** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-14** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2018-03-14** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2018-03-14** House Immediately Transmitted to Senate
- **2018-03-15** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-19** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-19** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2018-03-21** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-22** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2018-03-22** Act 290 `executive-signature`
- **2018-03-22** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f4a4756c-4916-4717-9477-b34649bb73b5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).