Influence-Tools/republic-os
2
0
Fork 0
Code Issues Pull Requests Actions Packages Projects Releases Wiki Activity

Legislation: batch A — AK AL AR AZ CO CT DE GA HI IA ID

Browse Source 
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
This commit is contained in:
Fabio
2026-07-06 17:26:56 -04:00
parent bf8b4e475b
commit a43f31b272
32715 changed files with 2645888 additions and 0 deletions
Download Patch File Download Diff File Expand all files Collapse all files
legislation/us/states/ga/2025-26/hb-1537.md
+76
View File
@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
---
type: "Bill"
title: "Bibb County; ad valorem tax for educational purposes; provide a homestead exemption"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to provide a homestead exemption from Bibb County school district ad valorem taxes for educational purposes in the amount of $17,000.00 of the assessed value of the homestead for residents of that school district who are between the ages of 65 and 74; to provide a homestead exemption from Bibb County school district ad valorem taxes for educational purposes in the amount of $32,000.00 of the assessed value of the homestead for residents of that school district who are between the ages of 75 and 84; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2025_26"
identifier: "HB 1537"
citation: "Georgia HB 1537 (2025_26)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Anissa Jones", "Dale Washburn", "Floyd Griffin", "Miriam Paris", "Tangie Herring"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2026-03-10"
last_action: "2026-05-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/627625dc-190e-4a22-bf01-e9560daaeef2"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "798024e36ef535c5f1c083ebd9853049e7cc439780ef20c4d5920bf64b903e09"
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 1537 (2025_26) — Bibb County; ad valorem tax for educational purposes; provide a homestead exemption
A BILL to be entitled an Act to provide a homestead exemption from Bibb County school district ad valorem taxes for educational purposes in the amount of $17,000.00 of the assessed value of the homestead for residents of that school district who are between the ages of 65 and 74; to provide a homestead exemption from Bibb County school district ad valorem taxes for educational purposes in the amount of $32,000.00 of the assessed value of the homestead for residents of that school district who are between the ages of 75 and 84; to provide for related matters; 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 1537/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/247392.pdf)
2. **LC 61 0407/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/245654.pdf)
3. **Local Ad** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/245672.pdf)
## Votes
- Senate Vote #799 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — **50–0** (pass) · upper
- House Vote #712 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — **161–2** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Anissa Jones — primary (person)
- Dale Washburn — primary (person)
- Floyd Griffin — primary (person)
- Miriam Paris — primary (person)
- Tangie Herring — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2026-03-10** House Hopper `introduction`
- **2026-03-12** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2026-03-16** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2026-03-18** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-03-18** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2026-03-18** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2026-03-19** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2026-03-25** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-03-25** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2026-04-06** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2026-05-12** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2026-05-12** Act 673 `executive-signature`
- **2026-05-12** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/627625dc-190e-4a22-bf01-e9560daaeef2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).