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Committee advances bill to make key offices nonpartisan in five metro counties
Summary
The Senate Ethics Committee advanced SB 573 to make certain county offices nonpartisan in five large metro counties (Fulton, Gwinnett, Cobb, Clayton and DeKalb). District attorneys and others warned the change may require a constitutional amendment; the bill’s author said legislative counsel supported the statute as drafted.
Senate Bill 573, as introduced by Senator Seltzler, would convert selected county offices — including county commission seats, district attorney and solicitor offices, clerks of superior and state courts, tax commissioners and elected surveyors — to nonpartisan elections in five specified metro counties: Fulton, Gwinnett, Cobb, Clayton and DeKalb. The author said those counties share consolidated policing and medical‑examiner functions that, he argued, make nonpartisan governance appropriate.
The committee debated the bill at length. Senator Jackson and others asked why the measure applied only to the five…
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