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type: "Bill"
title: "Screven, City of; terms of mayor and city council; revise"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act to provide a new charter for the City of Screven, approved March 9, 1959 (Ga. L. 1959, p. 2203), as amended, particularly by an Act approved June 30, 1964 (Ga. L. 1964 Ex. Sess., p. 2114), so as to revise the terms of the mayor and city council; to provide for election dates; to revise meeting dates for the city council; to revise the powers of the mayor; to remove provisions related to the police court; to provide for a municipal court; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2019_20"
identifier: "HB 990"
citation: "Georgia HB 990 (2019_20)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bill Werkheiser", "Steven Meeks"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2020-02-21"
last_action: "2020-06-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/20a0c6cf-31d1-4e53-84de-01cb1d37e32b"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "b756fc1cf76e90e12ba8bba8e7fc3f0ebab0b6817344d5990fbac399683d680a"
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 990 (2019_20) — Screven, City of; terms of mayor and city council; revise
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act to provide a new charter for the City of Screven, approved March 9, 1959 (Ga. L. 1959, p. 2203), as amended, particularly by an Act approved June 30, 1964 (Ga. L. 1964 Ex. Sess., p. 2114), so as to revise the terms of the mayor and city council; to provide for election dates; to revise meeting dates for the city council; to revise the powers of the mayor; to remove provisions related to the police court; to provide for a municipal court; 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 990/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/192524.pdf)
2. **LC 47 0322/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/190631.pdf)
3. **Local Ad** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/190653.pdf)
## Votes
- Local Calendar — **142–0** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Bill Werkheiser — primary (person)
- Steven Meeks — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-02-21** House Hopper
- **2020-02-24** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2020-02-25** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2020-02-28** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-28** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2020-02-28** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2020-03-02** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-05** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-05** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2020-06-24** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2020-06-30** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-30** Act 465 `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-30** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/20a0c6cf-31d1-4e53-84de-01cb1d37e32b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).