--- title: SB 543. Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues for Butts County; required to read an ordinance, resolution, or other matter before the board at one meeting prior to the adoption; provide collection: bills id: 2025-2026/sb543 cite_as: SB 543, 2025-2026 Regular Session (Ga.) canonical_url: https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/sb543 md_url: https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/sb543.md text_url: https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/sb543/text source_url: https://www.legis.ga.gov/legislation/73478 date: 2026-05-11 status: passed 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/sb542.md next: https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/sb544.md index: https://georgiacommons.org/bills/index.md omitted: votes and history omitted_chars: 1236 omitted_url: https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/sb543.md?full=1 bill_number: SB 543 session: 2025-2026 Regular Session session_slug: 2025-2026 chamber: Senate bill_type: bill status_date: 2026-05-11 last_action: Effective Date 2026-05-11 sponsors: - Ricky Williams - Lee Anderson - Brian Strickland - Clint Crowe text_version: Enrolled has_text: true legiscan_url: https://legiscan.com/GA/bill/SB543/2025 upstream_id: 2121450 summaries_model: claude-sonnet-5 topic_tags: - local government - Butts County - county commissioners - government procedure --- # SB 543. Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues for Butts County; required to read an ordinance, resolution, or other matter before the board at one meeting prior to the adoption; provide ## Text Senate Bill 543 By: Senators Williams of the 25th, Anderson of the 24th and Strickland of the 42nd AS PASSED A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT To amend an Act creating the Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues for Butts County, approved February 24, 1941 (Ga. L. 1941, p. 793), as amended, so as to provide that the board of commissioners shall not be required to read an ordinance, resolution, or other matter before the board at more than one meeting; 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 Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues for Butts County, approved February 24, 1941 (Ga. L. 1941, p. 793), as amended, is amended by adding a new section to read as follows: "SECTION 8A. Notwithstanding any provision of this Act to the contrary, the board of commissioners shall not be required to read an ordinance, resolution, or other matter before the board at more than one meeting." 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 Senate bill would let the Butts County Board of Commissioners adopt ordinances and resolutions after reading them at just one meeting, instead of requiring multiple readings. ### Plain-language summary This bill amends the 1941 law that created the Butts County Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues. Under the current setup, some local rules have required the board to read an ordinance, resolution, or other matter at more than one meeting before adopting it. The bill adds a new section to that 1941 Act stating the board shall not be required to read such items at more than one meeting. In practice, this lets the board finalize local measures in a single meeting rather than spreading the process across multiple sessions. The bill also repeals any conflicting laws. ### What it does - Adds a new section to the 1941 Act governing the Butts County Board of Commissioners allowing single-meeting adoption of ordinances and resolutions. - Removes any existing requirement that the board read a matter at more than one meeting before taking action on it. - Repeals any other state or local laws that conflict with this change. ### Who it affects The Butts County Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues, county government staff who prepare ordinances and resolutions, and Butts County residents who may see local measures adopted more quickly with fewer public readings. ### Why it matters By allowing the board to adopt ordinances and resolutions after just one meeting, the process for passing local rules in Butts County could move faster, though residents would have less advance notice or fewer chances to weigh in before a matter becomes final. ### Key provisions - Section 1 adds a new Section 8A to the 1941 Act creating the Butts County board, stating the board need not read a matter at more than one meeting before adopting it. - Section 2 repeals any laws or parts of laws that conflict with this change. ## Status - Status: Passed (2026-05-11) - Last action: Effective Date 2026-05-11 (2026-05-11) - Sponsors: Ricky Williams, Lee Anderson, Brian Strickland, Clint Crowe - Official page: https://www.legis.ga.gov/legislation/73478 > The history, votes, and amendments (1,236 characters) are at https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/sb543.md?full=1