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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Georgia Downtown Renaissance Investment Tax Credit Act; enact"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 7 of Title 48 of the O.C.G.A., relating to the imposition, rate, computation, and exemptions from state income tax, so as to revise and change provisions regarding state income tax credits; to provide for state income tax credits for certain downtown investments; to provide for state income tax credits for qualified contributions to a Georgia Renaissance Fund; to provide for state income tax credits for certain downtown housing investments; to provide for short titles; to provide for procedures, conditions, and limitations; to provide for powers, duties, and authority of the state revenue commissioner, the Department of Revenue, and the Department of Community Affairs; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date and applicability; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
+legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
+session: "2013_14"
+identifier: "HB 128"
+citation: "Georgia HB 128 (2013_14)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Allen Peake", "Carl Rogers", "Edward Lindsey", "John Meadows", "Katie Dempsey", "Wendell Willard"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 20
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2013-01-28"
+last_action: "2014-04-16"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3327f7d0-4bff-4018-be47-4d306cffd01a"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "769680338ee92064873c82668ef9695899b904c83304b6e6799e09af73b33f39"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ga"]
+---
+
+# Georgia HB 128 (2013_14) — Georgia Downtown Renaissance Investment Tax Credit Act; enact
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 7 of Title 48 of the O.C.G.A., relating to the imposition, rate, computation, and exemptions from state income tax, so as to revise and change provisions regarding state income tax credits; to provide for state income tax credits for certain downtown investments; to provide for state income tax credits for qualified contributions to a Georgia Renaissance Fund; to provide for state income tax credits for certain downtown housing investments; to provide for short titles; to provide for procedures, conditions, and limitations; to provide for powers, duties, and authority of the state revenue commissioner, the Department of Revenue, and the Department of Community Affairs; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date and applicability; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB 128/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/144434.pdf)
+2. **LC 34 3600/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/128874.pdf)
+3. **LC 34 4185S/hcs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/141941.pdf)
+4. **LC 34 4185S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/141627.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **160–15** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Allen Peake — primary (person)
+- Carl Rogers — primary (person)
+- Edward Lindsey — primary (person)
+- John Meadows — primary (person)
+- Katie Dempsey — primary (person)
+- Wendell Willard — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2013-01-28** House Hopper
+- **2013-01-29** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2013-01-30** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2014-02-26** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2014-03-03** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2014-03-03** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2014-03-04** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2014-03-07** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2014-03-10** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2014-03-13** Senate Engrossed `passage`
+- **2014-03-13** Senate Tabled
+- **2014-03-18** Senate Taken from Table
+- **2014-03-18** Senate Tabled
+- **2014-03-18** Senate Taken from Table
+- **2014-03-18** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2014-03-18** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2014-03-26** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2014-04-16** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2014-04-16** Act 536 `executive-signature`
+- **2014-04-16** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3327f7d0-4bff-4018-be47-4d306cffd01a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+