--- title: HB 594. Baker County; board of commissioners meet on the first Tuesday of each month; provide collection: bills id: 2025-2026/hb594 cite_as: HB 594, 2025-2026 Regular Session (Ga.) canonical_url: https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/hb594 md_url: https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/hb594.md text_url: https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/hb594/text source_url: https://www.legis.ga.gov/legislation/70715 date: 2025-05-13 status: passed corpus_version: bills-2026-08-28 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/hb593.md next: https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/hb595.md index: https://georgiacommons.org/bills/index.md omitted: votes and history omitted_chars: 884 omitted_url: https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/hb594.md?full=1 bill_number: HB 594 session: 2025-2026 Regular Session session_slug: 2025-2026 chamber: House bill_type: bill status_date: 2025-05-13 last_action: Effective Date 2025-05-13 sponsors: - Gerald Greene text_version: Enrolled has_text: true legiscan_url: https://legiscan.com/GA/bill/HB594/2025 upstream_id: 1982172 summaries_model: claude-sonnet-5 topic_tags: - Baker County government - local government meetings - county commissioners - local ordinances --- # HB 594. Baker County; board of commissioners meet on the first Tuesday of each month; provide ## Text 25 LC 61 0118/AP House Bill 594 (AS PASSED HOUSE AND SENATE) By: Representative Greene of the 154th A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT To amend an Act creating the board of commissioners of Baker County, approved August 8,1 1917 (Ga. L. 1917, p. 306), as amended, so as to provide that the board shall meet on the first2 Tuesday of each month and on such other days as it may determine; to provide for a meeting3 location to be set by local ordinance; to provide for related m atters; to repeal conflicting4 laws; and for other purposes.5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:6 SECTION 1.7 An Act creating the board of commissioners of Baker County, approved August 8, 1917 (Ga.8 L. 1917, p. 306), as amended, is amended by revising Section 5 as follows:9 "SECTION 510 The board of commissioners shall meet on the first Tuesday of each month and on such other11 days as it may determine. The board shall, by local ordinance, set a location and time for12 such meetings."13 SECTION 2.14 All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.15 H. B. 594 - 1 - ## 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 bill passed by the Georgia General Assembly would set the Baker County board of commissioners' regular meeting day as the first Tuesday of each month, while letting the board add other meeting days and set its own meeting location by local ordinance. ### Plain-language summary Baker County's board of commissioners currently operates under a 1917 state law that created the board, and this bill amends that law's Section 5 to spell out when and where the board must meet. Under the change, the board is required to meet on the first Tuesday of every month, and it may also meet on any other days it chooses. The board is given authority to decide, through a local ordinance, exactly where and at what time those meetings take place. The bill repeals any prior laws that conflict with this new requirement. ### What it does - Requires the Baker County board of commissioners to meet on the first Tuesday of each month. - Allows the board to hold additional meetings on other days it decides on its own. - Gives the board power to set the meeting location and time through a local ordinance rather than state law. - Repeals any existing laws or parts of laws that conflict with these new meeting requirements. ### Who it affects This bill affects the Baker County board of commissioners directly, setting new rules for how often it must meet, and it also affects Baker County residents who attend or follow commission meetings, since the location and schedule will now be set locally. ### Why it matters Residents who want to attend or track Baker County government meetings will have a guaranteed monthly meeting date to rely on, while the exact meeting place and additional meeting dates could change based on decisions the commissioners make through local ordinance. ### Key provisions - Section 1 amends Section 5 of the 1917 Act creating the Baker County board of commissioners to require monthly meetings on the first Tuesday. - Section 1 also lets the board schedule other meeting days beyond the required monthly Tuesday meeting. - Section 1 directs the board to set the meeting location and time by local ordinance rather than fixing it in state law. - Section 2 repeals any conflicting laws or parts of laws currently in effect. ## Status - Status: Passed (2025-05-13) - Last action: Effective Date 2025-05-13 (2025-05-13) - Sponsors: Gerald Greene - Official page: https://www.legis.ga.gov/legislation/70715 > The history, votes, and amendments (884 characters) are at https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/hb594.md?full=1