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type: "Bill"
title: "Pembroke, City of; mayor and city council members; provide four-year terms"
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, so as to provide for four-year 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 724"
citation: "Georgia HB 724 (2025_26)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lehman Franklin"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-03-04"
last_action: "2025-05-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/95b86251-9b03-42b8-9703-749e0abf235b"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "39b15c3e2180f30e36e971a49d5680905d225ac1327c39fb65ddfee816048d29"
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 724 (2025_26) — Pembroke, City of; mayor and city council members; provide four-year terms
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, so as to provide for four-year 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 724/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/237141.pdf)
2. **LC 62 0133/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/235108.pdf)
3. **Local Ad** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/235143.pdf)
## Votes
- House Vote #273 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — **169–0** (pass) · lower
- Senate Vote #277 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — **52–0** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Lehman Franklin — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-03-04** House Hopper `introduction`
- **2025-03-06** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2025-03-10** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2025-03-13** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-13** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2025-03-13** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2025-03-18** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-25** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-25** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2025-04-07** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-01** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-01** Act 62 `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-01** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/95b86251-9b03-42b8-9703-749e0abf235b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).