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

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

legislation/us/states/ga/2025-26/hb-755.md

@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Cherokee County; levy an excise tax"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to authorize the governing authority of Cherokee County to levy an excise tax pursuant to subsection (b) of Code Section 48-13-51 of the O.C.G.A.; to provide for procedures, conditions, and limitations; 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 755"
+citation: "Georgia HB 755 (2025_26)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Brad Thomas", "Don Parsons", "Jan Jones", "Jordan Ridley", "Mandi Ballinger", "Mitchell Scoggins"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-03-11"
+last_action: "2025-05-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/58e9e4f0-8bb5-49c1-be1c-d5b9a8b84924"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "e6c1483fde009c49e987a5e2f6068fbb8a9282f352b4a74e450a302bf7f6cfbb"
+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 755 (2025_26) — Cherokee County; levy an excise tax
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to authorize the governing authority of Cherokee County to levy an excise tax pursuant to subsection (b) of Code Section 48-13-51 of the O.C.G.A.; to provide for procedures, conditions, and limitations; 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 755/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/238029.pdf)
+2. **LC 47 3314/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/235878.pdf)
+3. **Local Ad** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/235903.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- House Vote #302 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — **170–0** (pass) · lower
+- Senate Vote #313 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — **53–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Brad Thomas — primary (person)
+- Don Parsons — primary (person)
+- Jan Jones — primary (person)
+- Jordan Ridley — primary (person)
+- Mandi Ballinger — primary (person)
+- Mitchell Scoggins — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-03-11** House Hopper `introduction`
+- **2025-03-13** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2025-03-18** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2025-03-25** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-25** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2025-03-25** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2025-03-27** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-28** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-28** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2025-04-07** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-05-13** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2025-05-13** Act 168 `executive-signature`
+- **2025-05-13** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/58e9e4f0-8bb5-49c1-be1c-d5b9a8b84924`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+