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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Sales and use tax; continuation of joint county and municipal tax; provide"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 8 of Title 48 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the joint county and municipal sales and use tax, so as to provide for the continuation of the tax; to repeal certain provisions regarding a process for specifying and determining the distribution of the proceeds of such tax; to provide for related matters; to provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
+legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
+session: "2013_14"
+identifier: "HB 719"
+citation: "Georgia HB 719 (2013_14)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Andrew Welch", "Barry Fleming", "Jay Powell", "Jon Burns", "Kevin Tanner", "Wendell Willard"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2014-01-13"
+last_action: "2014-04-29"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/79f2033a-6c85-432b-9df5-81d94d5d21c4"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "6d3cb882642e9ba0849dadfecac1358ab1c09e049e94c95dfa6402b83c6ab563"
+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 719 (2013_14) — Sales and use tax; continuation of joint county and municipal tax; provide
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 8 of Title 48 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the joint county and municipal sales and use tax, so as to provide for the continuation of the tax; to repeal certain provisions regarding a process for specifying and determining the distribution of the proceeds of such tax; to provide for related matters; to provide an effective date; 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 719/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/142513.pdf)
+2. **LC 34 3963/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/137351.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **170–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Andrew Welch — primary (person)
+- Barry Fleming — primary (person)
+- Jay Powell — primary (person)
+- Jon Burns — primary (person)
+- Kevin Tanner — primary (person)
+- Wendell Willard — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2014-01-13** House Hopper
+- **2014-01-14** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2014-01-15** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2014-02-06** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2014-02-10** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2014-02-10** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2014-02-11** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2014-02-20** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2014-02-21** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2014-03-04** Senate Engrossed `passage`
+- **2014-03-04** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2014-03-04** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2014-03-24** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2014-04-29** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2014-04-29** Act 662 `executive-signature`
+- **2014-04-29** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/79f2033a-6c85-432b-9df5-81d94d5d21c4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+