republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2025-26/sb-340.md

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Bill	City of Tybee Island; selection of a mayor pro tem; provide	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act to provide for a new charter for the City of Tybee Island, approved April 20, 1995 (Ga. L. 1995, p. 4462), as amended, particularly by an Act approved April 2, 2019 (Ga. L. 2019, p. 3569), so as to provide for the selection of a mayor pro tem; to provide for the duties of the mayor pro tem; to provide for filling a vacancy in the office of the mayor pro tem; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2025_26	SB 340	Georgia SB 340 (2025_26)	bill		enacted	Ben Watson	4	13	2	2025-03-18	2025-05-01	openstates	ocd-bill/b2987f5b-bab0-45b0-83c7-a65c7ed8d82a	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	e2cabb2db7c6cb9f5dddfd55b70bb0ae0bb2670ae97271bd1e0d1184734f71c1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 340 (2025_26) — City of Tybee Island; selection of a mayor pro tem; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act to provide for a new charter for the City of Tybee Island, approved April 20, 1995 (Ga. L. 1995, p. 4462), as amended, particularly by an Act approved April 2, 2019 (Ga. L. 2019, p. 3569), so as to provide for the selection of a mayor pro tem; to provide for the duties of the mayor pro tem; to provide for filling a vacancy in the office of the mayor pro tem; 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. As Passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
2. As introduced LC 62 0163 (committee substitute) — source
3. SB 340 Local Ad (committee substitute) — source
4. SB 340/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate Vote #291 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 52–0 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #377 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 168–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Ben Watson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-03-18 Senate Hopper introduction
• 2025-03-20 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2025-03-27 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-27 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2025-03-28 House First Readers reading-1
• 2025-03-31 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2025-04-02 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-02 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2025-04-02 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2025-04-10 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-05-01 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2025-05-01 Act 54 executive-signature
• 2025-05-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b2987f5b-bab0-45b0-83c7-a65c7ed8d82a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).