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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Income tax credit; incentives to promote the revitalization of rural Georgia downtowns; provide"
+description: "A BILL to amend Article 2 of Chapter 7 of Title 48 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the imposition, rate, computation, and exemptions from state income taxation, so as to provide tax credit incentives to promote the revitalization of vacant rural Georgia downtowns by encouraging investment, job creation, and economic growth in long-established business districts; to provide for definitions; to delineate procedures, conditions, eligibility, and limitations; to provide for powers, duties, and authority of the commissioner of community affairs, the commissioner of economic development, and the revenue commissioner; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date and automatic repeal; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
+legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
+session: "2017_18"
+identifier: "HB 73"
+citation: "Georgia HB 73 (2017_18)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Jason Shaw", "Jay Powell", "John Meadows", "Penny Houston", "Sam Watson", "Trey Kelley"]
+version_count: 0
+action_count: 17
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2017-01-23"
+last_action: "2017-05-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/148dd328-1793-4003-899d-191110e95bc5"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "8f52370ade03b4c3123d5990142c2284cfc8171fda682311b4ffd8297ffd830a"
+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 73 (2017_18) — Income tax credit; incentives to promote the revitalization of rural Georgia downtowns; provide
+
+A BILL to amend Article 2 of Chapter 7 of Title 48 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the imposition, rate, computation, and exemptions from state income taxation, so as to provide tax credit incentives to promote the revitalization of vacant rural Georgia downtowns by encouraging investment, job creation, and economic growth in long-established business districts; to provide for definitions; to delineate procedures, conditions, eligibility, and limitations; to provide for powers, duties, and authority of the commissioner of community affairs, the commissioner of economic development, and the revenue commissioner; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date and automatic repeal; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **158–3** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Jason Shaw — primary (person)
+- Jay Powell — primary (person)
+- John Meadows — primary (person)
+- Penny Houston — primary (person)
+- Sam Watson — primary (person)
+- Trey Kelley — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-01-23** House Hopper
+- **2017-01-24** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2017-01-25** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2017-02-09** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-02-16** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2017-02-16** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2017-02-17** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2017-03-16** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-20** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2017-03-28** Senate Engrossed `passage`
+- **2017-03-28** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2017-03-28** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2017-03-28** House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
+- **2017-04-05** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2017-05-08** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2017-05-08** Act 205 `executive-signature`
+- **2017-05-08** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/148dd328-1793-4003-899d-191110e95bc5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+