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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Audits and Accounts, Department of; revise deadlines, selection criteria, and required contents for certain annual economic analyses"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 28-5-41.1 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to economic analysis of certain tax benefits of law or proposed law, and analysis on performance and outcomes of Code Section 33-1-25, so as to revise the deadlines, selection criteria, and required contents for certain annual economic analyses conducted by the Department of Audits and Accounts; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
+legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
+session: "2023_24"
+identifier: "HB 581"
+citation: "Georgia HB 581 (2023_24)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Clint Crowe", "Shaw Blackmon"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 18
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2023-02-23"
+last_action: "2025-01-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/697d6e47-e9f2-413d-b300-c761e2927e5b"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "ee9b8badcb3bf306d04316c1a8d4e44334ea4ddc35511bfe5ac37e8ba2617915"
+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 581 (2023_24) — Audits and Accounts, Department of; revise deadlines, selection criteria, and required contents for certain annual economic analyses
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 28-5-41.1 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to economic analysis of certain tax benefits of law or proposed law, and analysis on performance and outcomes of Code Section 33-1-25, so as to revise the deadlines, selection criteria, and required contents for certain annual economic analyses conducted by the Department of Audits and Accounts; 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. **Floor Amendment AM 50 0088** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20232024/229139.pdf)
+2. **HB 581/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20232024/229562.pdf)
+3. **LC 43 2574/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20232024/215893.pdf)
+4. **Sen Ctee Sub LC 50 0888S** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20232024/227891.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- House Vote #211 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — **175–0** (pass) · lower
+- Senate Vote #783 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — **52–0** (pass) · upper
+- House Vote #834 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — **164–2** (pass) · lower
+- Senate Vote #881 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — **52–0** (pass) · upper
+- Senate Vote #763 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — **32–20** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Clint Crowe — primary (person)
+- Shaw Blackmon — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-02-23** House Hopper `introduction`
+- **2023-02-27** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2023-02-28** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2023-03-02** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-03-06** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2023-03-06** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2023-03-07** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2024-03-20** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-20** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2024-03-26** Senate Engrossed `passage`
+- **2024-03-26** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2024-03-26** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2024-03-28** House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub As Amended
+- **2024-03-28** Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
+- **2024-04-03** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-04-18** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2024-04-18** Act 379 `executive-signature`
+- **2025-01-01** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/697d6e47-e9f2-413d-b300-c761e2927e5b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+