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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Income tax; claimant agency; revise definition"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 7 of Chapter 7 of Title 48 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to setoff debt collection relative to income taxes, so as to revise the definition of the term \"claimant agency\"; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
+legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
+session: "2015_16"
+identifier: "HB 275"
+citation: "Georgia HB 275 (2015_16)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Brett Harrell", "Brian Strickland", "David Knight", "Howard Maxwell", "Matt Ramsey", "Trey Kelley"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 18
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2015-02-09"
+last_action: "2015-05-06"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8f444bed-bf0b-4c8c-99a2-8fc36a058bf4"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "e9dcde34fedc8a50702c5e5687d3b5415e270fbbdd1ef6c4130e76c2acfd6fda"
+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 275 (2015_16) — Income tax; claimant agency; revise definition
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 7 of Chapter 7 of Title 48 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to setoff debt collection relative to income taxes, so as to revise the definition of the term "claimant agency"; to provide for 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 275/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/153835.pdf)
+2. **LC 34 4466/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/147091.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **168–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Brett Harrell — primary (person)
+- Brian Strickland — primary (person)
+- David Knight — primary (person)
+- Howard Maxwell — primary (person)
+- Matt Ramsey — primary (person)
+- Trey Kelley — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2015-02-09** House Hopper
+- **2015-02-10** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2015-02-11** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2015-03-02** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2015-03-04** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2015-03-04** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2015-03-05** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2015-03-27** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2015-03-27** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2015-03-31** Senate Engrossed `passage`
+- **2015-03-31** Senate Tabled
+- **2015-04-02** Senate Taken from Table
+- **2015-04-02** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2015-04-02** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2015-04-08** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2015-05-06** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2015-05-06** Act 135 `executive-signature`
+- **2015-05-06** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8f444bed-bf0b-4c8c-99a2-8fc36a058bf4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+