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type: "Bill"
title: "City of Tybee Island; selection of a mayor pro tem; provide"
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2025_26"
identifier: "SB 340"
citation: "Georgia SB 340 (2025_26)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ben Watson"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-03-18"
last_action: "2025-05-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b2987f5b-bab0-45b0-83c7-a65c7ed8d82a"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "e2cabb2db7c6cb9f5dddfd55b70bb0ae0bb2670ae97271bd1e0d1184734f71c1"
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 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](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/237538.pdf)
2. **As introduced LC 62 0163** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/236207.pdf)
3. **SB 340 Local Ad** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/236212.pdf)
4. **SB 340/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/239148.pdf)
## 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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b2987f5b-bab0-45b0-83c7-a65c7ed8d82a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).