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type: "Bill"
title: "Douglas, City of; office of mayor; revise provisions for filling vacancies"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act providing a new charter for the City of Douglas, approved March 10, 1993 (Ga. L. 1993, p. 4022), as amended, particularly by an Act approved May 6, 2009 (Ga. L. 2009, p. 3776), so as to revise the provisions for the filling of vacancies in the office of mayor; 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 295"
citation: "Georgia HB 295 (2017_18)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Clay Pirkle", "Dominic LaRiccia", "John Corbett"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 13
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2017-02-08"
last_action: "2017-03-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b580fe96-e14e-4cd9-8f2f-1e7a8f0c0e51"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "2ee41a63f10b2acb55a5cbb7a62d6d4b9233bc595d178804b6bdf81c5d133317"
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 295 (2017_18) — Douglas, City of; office of mayor; revise provisions for filling vacancies
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act providing a new charter for the City of Douglas, approved March 10, 1993 (Ga. L. 1993, p. 4022), as amended, particularly by an Act approved May 6, 2009 (Ga. L. 2009, p. 3776), so as to revise the provisions for the filling of vacancies in the office of mayor; 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 — **1460** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Clay Pirkle — primary (person)
- Dominic LaRiccia — primary (person)
- John Corbett — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-02-08** House Hopper
- **2017-02-09** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2017-02-10** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2017-02-14** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-14** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2017-02-14** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2017-02-15** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-17** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-21** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2017-03-29** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2017-03-29** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2017-03-29** Act 13 `executive-signature`
- **2017-03-29** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b580fe96-e14e-4cd9-8f2f-1e7a8f0c0e51`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).