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type: "Bill"
title: "Hall County; Board of Education; provide that the boundaries are not changed by annexations undertaken by the City of Buford"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act providing for districts for the election of the Board of Education of Hall County, approved March 29, 1983 (Ga. L. 1983, p. 4553), as amended, so as to provide that the boundaries of the Hall County school district are not changed by annexations undertaken by the City of Buford unless expressly approved in a separate local Act of the General Assembly or by intergovernmental agreement; to provide for intergovernmental agreements; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2023_24"
identifier: "HB 156"
citation: "Georgia HB 156 (2023_24)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brent Cox", "Derrick McCollum", "Emory Dunahoo", "Lee Hawkins", "Matt Dubnik"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-01-31"
last_action: "2023-05-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9af3fbc2-2ff0-4ee1-ac70-1c60ed2750c7"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "5f616840fb5e909ec479f624e3d8b81d8c0183295e6c8dbc7c7b58ab87438f23"
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 156 (2023_24) — Hall County; Board of Education; provide that the boundaries are not changed by annexations undertaken by the City of Buford
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act providing for districts for the election of the Board of Education of Hall County, approved March 29, 1983 (Ga. L. 1983, p. 4553), as amended, so as to provide that the boundaries of the Hall County school district are not changed by annexations undertaken by the City of Buford unless expressly approved in a separate local Act of the General Assembly or by intergovernmental agreement; to provide for intergovernmental agreements; 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.
1. **HB 156/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20232024/216003.pdf)
2. **LC 47 1965/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20232024/213227.pdf)
3. **Local Ad** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20232024/213325.pdf)
## Votes
- Senate Vote #72 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — **49–0** (pass) · upper
- House Vote #44 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — **162–2** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Brent Cox — primary (person)
- Derrick McCollum — primary (person)
- Emory Dunahoo — primary (person)
- Lee Hawkins — primary (person)
- Matt Dubnik — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-01-31** House Hopper `introduction`
- **2023-02-01** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2023-02-02** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2023-02-16** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-16** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2023-02-16** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2023-02-21** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-23** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-23** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2023-03-30** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-05-03** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-03** Act 276 `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-03** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9af3fbc2-2ff0-4ee1-ac70-1c60ed2750c7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).