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type: "Bill"
title: "Athens, City of; Clarke County; superintendent to make certain purchases; provide authority"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act providing for the merger of the existing independent school system of the City of Athens and the existing school district in the County of Clarke, approved March 7, 1955 (Ga. L. 1955, p. 3057), as amended, particularly by an Act approved April 25, 2002 (Ga. L. 2002, p. 4743), so as to provide for the authority of the superintendent to make certain purchases; to provide for performance bonds related to certain construction projects; to provide for approval of certain purchases by the board of education; to provide for the board of education to modify maximum expenditure amounts; 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 556"
citation: "Georgia HB 556 (2017_18)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chuck Williams", "Regina Quick", "Spencer Frye"]
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/cd1ce26b-e870-4bfd-964a-a67128afe398"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "6f94fd28165a8bb12e09934ae2365c5318f4092c1eaca06fabb2ffe77fb3ce96"
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 556 (2017_18) — Athens, City of; Clarke County; superintendent to make certain purchases; provide authority
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act providing for the merger of the existing independent school system of the City of Athens and the existing school district in the County of Clarke, approved March 7, 1955 (Ga. L. 1955, p. 3057), as amended, particularly by an Act approved April 25, 2002 (Ga. L. 2002, p. 4743), so as to provide for the authority of the superintendent to make certain purchases; to provide for performance bonds related to certain construction projects; to provide for approval of certain purchases by the board of education; to provide for the board of education to modify maximum expenditure amounts; 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
- Chuck Williams — primary (person)
- Regina Quick — primary (person)
- Spencer Frye — 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`
- **2017-03-13** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-13** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2017-03-13** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2017-03-14** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-20** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-20** 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 129 `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/cd1ce26b-e870-4bfd-964a-a67128afe398`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).