republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2021-22/hb-1558.md

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Bill	Columbus, City of; city council; revise districts of members	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act providing a new charter for the county-wide government of Columbus, Georgia, approved April 5, 1993 (Ga. L. 1993, p. 4978), as amended, so as to revise the districts for the election of members of the city council; to provide for definitions and inclusions; to provide for continuation in office of current members; to provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2021_22	HB 1558	Georgia HB 1558 (2021_22)	bill		enacted	Calvin Smyre Carolyn Hugley Debbie Buckner Richard Smith Vance Smith	3	13	1	2022-03-11	2022-08-22	openstates	ocd-bill/02d86907-3b88-4c31-b72a-55687536545b	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	ab817065742f50d6a30e952ee6f50dba415f0a4fe991be2bc2fb6f13051a03b3	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 1558 (2021_22) — Columbus, City of; city council; revise districts of members

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act providing a new charter for the county-wide government of Columbus, Georgia, approved April 5, 1993 (Ga. L. 1993, p. 4978), as amended, so as to revise the districts for the election of members of the city council; to provide for definitions and inclusions; to provide for continuation in office of current members; to provide an effective date; 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 1558/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 47 1750/a (committee substitute) — source
3. Local Ad (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Supplemental Local Calendar — 152–12 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Calvin Smyre — primary (person)
• Carolyn Hugley — primary (person)
• Debbie Buckner — primary (person)
• Richard Smith — primary (person)
• Vance Smith — primary (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2022-03-11 House Hopper
• 2022-03-15 House First Readers reading-1
• 2022-03-16 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2022-03-23 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-03-23 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2022-03-23 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2022-03-25 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2022-03-30 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-03-30 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2022-04-06 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2022-04-11 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2022-04-11 Act 591 executive-signature
• 2022-08-22 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/02d86907-3b88-4c31-b72a-55687536545b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).