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type: "Bill"
title: "Riverdale, City of; provide for a governing authority"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act to incorporate the City of Riverdale, approved February 13, 1956 (Ga. L. 1956, p. 2205), as amended, so as to provide for a governing authority; to create wards for the election of members of the governing authority; to provide for definitions and inclusions; to provide for method of election and filling vacancies; to provide for the continuation in office of current members; to provide for related matters; to provide for effective dates; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2017_18"
identifier: "HB 548"
citation: "Georgia HB 548 (2017_18)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Debra Bazemore", "Mike Glanton", "Rhonda Burnough", "Sandra Scott", "Valencia Stovall"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 13
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2017-03-06"
last_action: "2017-05-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e1e0c54b-ac3a-4a69-b120-2e8e6cb835e3"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "8b5309e428932cf6159814814d2d08fb5eba9606525698785d1589c6ec6d05b4"
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 548 (2017_18) — Riverdale, City of; provide for a governing authority
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act to incorporate the City of Riverdale, approved February 13, 1956 (Ga. L. 1956, p. 2205), as amended, so as to provide for a governing authority; to create wards for the election of members of the governing authority; to provide for definitions and inclusions; to provide for method of election and filling vacancies; to provide for the continuation in office of current members; to provide for related matters; to provide for effective dates; 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 without HB 562 — **1600** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Debra Bazemore — primary (person)
- Mike Glanton — primary (person)
- Rhonda Burnough — primary (person)
- Sandra Scott — primary (person)
- Valencia Stovall — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-03-06** House Hopper
- **2017-03-09** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2017-03-10** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2017-03-14** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-14** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2017-03-14** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2017-03-15** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-22** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-22** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2017-04-04** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2017-05-03** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2017-05-03** Act 125 `executive-signature`
- **2017-05-03** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e1e0c54b-ac3a-4a69-b120-2e8e6cb835e3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).