---
type: "Bill"
title: "Budget report; require certain items to be included in tax expenditure review"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 45-12-75 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the contents and form of the budget report, so as to require certain items to be included in the tax expenditure review; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2013_14"
identifier: "HB 454"
citation: "Georgia HB 454 (2013_14)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Charles Martin", "Edward Lindsey", "Stacey Abrams"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 16
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2013-02-22"
last_action: "2013-05-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8a6a136f-7d63-40d7-a48f-f965dc503eeb"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "dc42fe7a081b5fa901faa0ac77f2ee2d3a3f1dabca568f2886f8dd8d515ff7ed"
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 454 (2013_14) — Budget report; require certain items to be included in tax expenditure review

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 45-12-75 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the contents and form of the budget report, so as to require certain items to be included in the tax expenditure review; to provide for related matters; 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. **HB 454/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/136402.pdf)
2. **LC 34 3754/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/132046.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **163–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Charles Martin — primary (person)
- Edward Lindsey — primary (person)
- Stacey Abrams — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2013-02-22** House Hopper
- **2013-02-25** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2013-02-26** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2013-02-27** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2013-03-05** House Postponed
- **2013-03-07** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2013-03-07** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2013-03-11** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2013-03-21** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2013-03-21** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2013-03-25** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2013-03-25** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2013-04-01** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2013-05-07** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2013-05-07** Act 288 `executive-signature`
- **2013-05-07** Effective Date

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8a6a136f-7d63-40d7-a48f-f965dc503eeb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).