HB647: HB647 Mulberry, City of; change corporate limits

The City of Mulberry was created by the Georgia General Assembly in 2024. This bill amends that original incorporating Act to add new territory to the city's official boundaries, known as its corporate limits. The bill lists a large number of specific properties in Gwinnett County by their deed book and page number, or by tax parcel ID number from the Gwinnett County Board of Tax Assessors, and adds all of them to the area covered by the City of Mulberry. This means the residents and land in these parcels would become part of the city rather than remaining in unincorporated Gwinnett County. The bill also repeals any prior laws that conflict with this change.

• Amends the 2024 Act that created the City of Mulberry to expand its official corporate limits (city boundaries).
• Adds over 30 specifically identified tracts of land in Gwinnett County, each described by deed book and page number, into the city.
• Includes several additional properties identified only by their Gwinnett County tax parcel ID numbers rather than deed records.
• Repeals any existing laws that conflict with the new boundary description.

Residents, landowners, and businesses on the specific Gwinnett County parcels being added to Mulberry, who would become city residents or property owners subject to city governance, taxes, and services instead of only county authority.

People and property newly brought inside Mulberry's boundaries would become subject to city ordinances, city services, and potentially city taxes, changing which local government has authority over their land day to day.

• Section 1 amends the appendix of the City of Mulberry's original 2024 incorporating Act (Ga. L. 2024, p. 3518) by adding a '2025 Addition' listing new territory.
• The added territory is defined entirely through Gwinnett County deed book and page citations, or through Gwinnett County tax parcel ID numbers.
• Section 2 repeals any prior laws that conflict with this boundary change.

1. 2026-01-12Senate Recommitted (Senate)
2. 2026-01-12Senate Taken from Table (Senate)
3. 2025-04-02Senate Tabled (Senate)
4. 2025-03-21Senate Read Second Time (Senate)
5. 2025-03-20Senate Committee Favorably Reported (Senate)
6. 2025-03-13Senate Withdrawn & Recommitted (Senate)
7. 2025-03-10Senate Read and Referred (Senate)
8. 2025-03-06House Passed/Adopted (House)

• Sandy Donatucci (R, HD-105)Primary sponsor
• Chuck Efstration (R, HD-104)
• Derrick McCollum (R, HD-030)
• Clint Dixon (R, SD-045)

1. PassedHouse voteMarch 6, 2025

   98 yea, 76 nay (4 not voting, 2 absent)

   Passage: House Vote #209

2. PassedSenate voteMarch 13, 2025

   34 yea, 18 nay (0 not voting, 4 absent)

   Motion To Withdraw And Commit: Senate Vote #228

• city boundaries
• Mulberry Georgia
• Gwinnett County
• municipal annexation