--- title: HB 1522. Clayton County Water Authority; fix compensation and reimbursement of expenses for members; authorize collection: bills id: 2025-2026/hb1522 cite_as: HB 1522, 2025-2026 Regular Session (Ga.) canonical_url: https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/hb1522 md_url: https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/hb1522.md text_url: https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/hb1522/text source_url: https://www.legis.ga.gov/legislation/73935 date: 2026-03-31 status: engrossed corpus_version: bills-2026-09-13 license: Public record of the Georgia General Assembly, via LegiScan; see about.md publisher: Georgia Commons, an independent project of Georgia Civic Data. Not the State of Georgia. Not legal advice. up: https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026.md previous: https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/hb1521.md next: https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/hb1523.md index: https://georgiacommons.org/bills/index.md omitted: votes and history omitted_chars: 480 omitted_url: https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/hb1522.md?full=1 bill_number: HB 1522 session: 2025-2026 Regular Session session_slug: 2025-2026 chamber: House bill_type: bill status_date: 2026-03-31 last_action: Senate Read and Referred sponsors: - Rhonda Burnough - Sandra Scott - Eric Bell text_version: Introduced has_text: true legiscan_url: https://legiscan.com/GA/bill/HB1522/2025 upstream_id: 2130694 summaries_model: claude-sonnet-5 topic_tags: - local government - water authority - Clayton County - public officials pay --- # HB 1522. Clayton County Water Authority; fix compensation and reimbursement of expenses for members; authorize ## Text House Bill 1522 By: Representatives Burnough of the 77th, Scott of the 76th, and Bell of the 75th A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT To amend an Act creating the Clayton County Water Authority, approved March 7, 1955 (Ga. L. 1955, p. 3344), as amended, so as to authorize the board of the authority to fix the compensation and reimbursement of expenses for members of the board; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA: SECTION 1. An Act creating the Clayton County Water Authority, approved March 7, 1955 (Ga. L. 1955, p. 3344), as amended, is amended by revising subsection (b) of Section 4 as follows: "(b) The board shall fix the compensation and reimbursement of expenses for members of the board; provided, however, that no action to increase the compensation or reimbursement of expenses for members of the board shall be taken until notice of intent to take the action has been published in the official legal organ of Clayton County at least once a week for three consecutive weeks immediately preceding the week during which the action is taken." SECTION 2. All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed. ## Summaries written by Georgia Commons The following was written by claude-sonnet-5 from the text above and is not part of the bill. Quote the text, not the summary. A House bill would let the Clayton County Water Authority's own board set pay and expense reimbursement for its members, instead of leaving that authority elsewhere in the 1955 law creating the authority. ### Plain-language summary The Clayton County Water Authority was created by a 1955 state law that has been amended several times since. This bill changes a specific part of that law, subsection (b) of Section 4, to spell out how board members' pay and expense reimbursement get set. Under the bill, the authority's own board would fix the compensation and reimbursement of expenses for its members. Before the board could raise either amount, it would have to publish a notice of its intent to do so in Clayton County's official legal organ (the newspaper designated for official county legal notices) once a week for three straight weeks before taking the action. The bill repeals any conflicting laws but does not state a separate effective date beyond standard practice for local legislation. ### What it does - Gives the Clayton County Water Authority's board the power to set its own members' compensation and expense reimbursement. - Requires public notice before any pay increase: the board must publish notice of intent in Clayton County's official legal organ once a week for three consecutive weeks before acting. - Repeals any existing laws that conflict with this new rule for the authority. ### Who it affects Members of the Clayton County Water Authority's governing board, who would gain authority over their own pay and expenses, and Clayton County residents who rely on the authority's water and sewer services and may follow public notices about board compensation changes. ### Why it matters The change means Clayton County Water Authority board members would decide their own pay rather than having it set some other way, but any increase would first require three weeks of public notice in the local legal organ, giving residents advance warning before pay changes take effect. ### Key provisions - Section 1 revises subsection (b) of Section 4 of the 1955 Act creating the authority, granting the board power to fix compensation and reimbursement of expenses for its members. - Section 1 also requires that before any increase in compensation or reimbursement is enacted, notice of intent must run in Clayton County's official legal organ once weekly for three consecutive weeks. - Section 2 repeals all laws and parts of laws that conflict with this Act. ## Status - Status: Engrossed (2026-03-31) - Last action: Senate Read and Referred (2026-03-31) - Sponsors: Rhonda Burnough, Sandra Scott, Eric Bell - Official page: https://www.legis.ga.gov/legislation/73935 > The history, votes, and amendments (480 characters) are at https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/hb1522.md?full=1