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type: "Bill"
title: "Pembroke, City of; election and terms for mayor and city council members; revise provisions"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act to amend, consolidate, create, revise, and supersede the several Acts incorporating the City of Pembroke, approved March 28, 1985 (Ga. L. 1985, p. 4846), as amended, particularly by an Act approved May 1, 2025 (Ga. L. 2025, p. 3599), so as to revise provisions relating to the election and terms for the mayor and city council members; to provide for elections; to provide for the current terms of city officers to continue; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2025_26"
identifier: "HB 1508"
citation: "Georgia HB 1508 (2025_26)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jesse Petrea", "Lehman Franklin", "Ron Stephens"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2026-03-04"
last_action: "2026-05-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/76c30153-cad1-4584-b558-96a90893b0f8"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "5f514b6fdc19af4105bfd244c85778227eb23832e6889dc792c0b8087380ad13"
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 1508 (2025_26) — Pembroke, City of; election and terms for mayor and city council members; revise provisions
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act to amend, consolidate, create, revise, and supersede the several Acts incorporating the City of Pembroke, approved March 28, 1985 (Ga. L. 1985, p. 4846), as amended, particularly by an Act approved May 1, 2025 (Ga. L. 2025, p. 3599), so as to revise provisions relating to the election and terms for the mayor and city council members; to provide for elections; to provide for the current terms of city officers to continue; 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 1508/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/246635.pdf)
2. **LC 47 4021/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/244992.pdf)
3. **Local Ad** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/245022.pdf)
## Votes
- House Vote #697 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — **158–0** (pass) · lower
- Senate Vote #745 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — **49–0** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Jesse Petrea — primary (person)
- Lehman Franklin — primary (person)
- Ron Stephens — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2026-03-04** House Hopper `introduction`
- **2026-03-06** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2026-03-09** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2026-03-12** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-03-12** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2026-03-12** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2026-03-16** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2026-03-19** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-03-19** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2026-04-06** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2026-05-11** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2026-05-11** Act 575 `executive-signature`
- **2026-05-11** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/76c30153-cad1-4584-b558-96a90893b0f8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).