Georgia CommonsHouse · Passed · 2025-2026 Regular Session
HB 760: Glynn County; board of commissioners; chairperson and members; change annual salary
Last action July 1, 2025 · Effective Date
House Bill 760 raises the annual salaries of the Glynn County Board of Commissioners' chairperson, vice chairperson, and other members, while requiring commissioners to forfeit pay for months they miss board meetings without an excuse.
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In plain language
This bill amends the 1937 local law that created the Glynn County Board of Commissioners, most recently updated in 2001, to change how much its members are paid. The chairperson's annual salary rises to $28,000 with a $600 monthly expense allowance, the vice chairperson's rises to $27,000 with the same $600 monthly allowance, and other board members receive $26,000 annually with a $550 monthly allowance. The bill also adds a new condition on that pay: any chairperson, vice chairperson, or board member who fails to attend at least one regularly scheduled board meeting in a given month will not be paid for that month, unless a majority of the board votes to excuse the absence for illness or other good cause. The changes are set to take effect on July 1, 2025.
What the bill does
- Sets the chairperson's annual salary at $28,000 plus a $600 monthly expense allowance.
- Sets the vice chairperson's annual salary at $27,000 plus a $600 monthly expense allowance.
- Sets each other board member's annual salary at $26,000 plus a $550 monthly expense allowance.
- Withholds a commissioner's monthly pay if they miss all regularly scheduled board meetings that month, unless the board excuses the absence by majority vote for illness or other good cause.
- Sets the effective date of the changes as July 1, 2025.
Who it affects
The chairperson, vice chairperson, and other members of the Glynn County Board of Commissioners are directly affected, since their pay amounts and attendance requirements change. Glynn County residents are indirectly affected as taxpayers funding these local government salaries.
Why it matters
Glynn County commissioners would see higher pay under this bill, but they would also risk losing a month's salary if they skip every regular board meeting that month without an excused reason, tying their compensation more directly to meeting attendance.
Key provisions
- Section 1 rewrites the first unnumbered paragraph of Section 6 of the 1937 Glynn County commission act to set new annual salaries and monthly expense allowances for the chairperson, vice chairperson, and other members.
- Section 1 also adds a pay-withholding rule for any month in which a commissioner attends no regularly scheduled board meeting, unless a majority of the board excuses the absence for illness or other good cause.
- Section 2 sets the effective date as July 1, 2025.
- Section 3 repeals any conflicting laws.
From the bill
“The chairperson shall receive an annual salary of $28,000.00, payable in monthly installments, and an expense allowance of $600.00 per month.”
“that compensation shall not be paid to the chairperson, vice chairperson, or other member of the board for any month in which the chairperson, vice chairperson, or other member of the board failed to attend at least one regularly scheduled meeting of the board unless the board by majority vote determines that the absence should be excused”
Status timeline
- Effective Date
- Act 58
- House Date Signed by Governor (House)
- House Sent to Governor (House)
- Senate Passed/Adopted (Senate)
- Senate Committee Favorably Reported (Senate)
- Senate Read and Referred (Senate)
- House Passed/Adopted (House)
Show full history (13 actions)
- House Third Readers (House)
- House Committee Favorably Reported (House)
- House Second Readers (House)
- House First Readers (House)
- House Hopper (House)
Sponsors
- Steven Sainz (R, HD-180)
- Rick Townsend (R, HD-179)
- Buddy DeLoach (R, HD-167)
Votes
- House voteMarch 25, 2025
170 yea, 0 nay (6 not voting, 4 excused)
- Senate voteMarch 28, 2025
53 yea, 0 nay (1 not voting, 2 excused)
Topics
- Glynn County government
- local government salaries
- county commissioners
- meeting attendance rules