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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Ad valorem tax; methodology used to establish forest land fair market value; revise"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 48-5-271 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to table of values for conservation use value of forest land, so as to revise the methodology used to establish forest land fair market value; to provide for a sales data bank; to provide for publication; to provide for appeals; to provide for an administrative fee; to provide for related matters; to provide for a contingent effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
+legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
+session: "2017_18"
+identifier: "HB 85"
+citation: "Georgia HB 85 (2017_18)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Chuck Williams", "Gerald Greene", "Jay Powell", "Terry England", "Tom McCall"]
+version_count: 0
+action_count: 20
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2017-01-23"
+last_action: "2019-01-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c8425da6-f032-4457-bff8-c4119dcfb008"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "567d37388fb33bdcfe790c512168734f6a71659c47b403d7008889f448c8cab8"
+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 85 (2017_18) — Ad valorem tax; methodology used to establish forest land fair market value; revise
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 48-5-271 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to table of values for conservation use value of forest land, so as to revise the methodology used to establish forest land fair market value; to provide for a sales data bank; to provide for publication; to provide for appeals; to provide for an administrative fee; to provide for related matters; to provide for a contingent 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.
+
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **162–2** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Chuck Williams — primary (person)
+- Gerald Greene — primary (person)
+- Jay Powell — primary (person)
+- Terry England — primary (person)
+- Tom McCall — 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`
+- **2017-02-24** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-01** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2017-03-01** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2017-03-03** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-22** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-02-23** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2018-03-21** Senate Recommitted `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-21** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-23** Senate Engrossed `passage`
+- **2018-03-23** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2018-03-23** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2018-03-29** House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub As Amended
+- **2018-03-29** Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
+- **2018-04-06** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2018-05-02** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2018-05-02** Act 296 `executive-signature`
+- **2019-01-01** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c8425da6-f032-4457-bff8-c4119dcfb008`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+