---
type: "Bill"
title: "Sales and use tax; continuation of joint county and municipal tax; provide"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 8 of Title 48 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the joint county and municipal sales and use tax, so as to provide for the continuation of the tax; to repeal certain provisions regarding a process for specifying and determining the distribution of the proceeds of such tax; to provide for related matters; to provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2013_14"
identifier: "HB 719"
citation: "Georgia HB 719 (2013_14)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Andrew Welch", "Barry Fleming", "Jay Powell", "Jon Burns", "Kevin Tanner", "Wendell Willard"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 16
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2014-01-13"
last_action: "2014-04-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/79f2033a-6c85-432b-9df5-81d94d5d21c4"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "6d3cb882642e9ba0849dadfecac1358ab1c09e049e94c95dfa6402b83c6ab563"
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 719 (2013_14) — Sales and use tax; continuation of joint county and municipal tax; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 8 of Title 48 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the joint county and municipal sales and use tax, so as to provide for the continuation of the tax; to repeal certain provisions regarding a process for specifying and determining the distribution of the proceeds of such tax; to provide for related matters; to provide 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 719/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/142513.pdf)
2. **LC 34 3963/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/137351.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **170–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Andrew Welch — primary (person)
- Barry Fleming — primary (person)
- Jay Powell — primary (person)
- Jon Burns — primary (person)
- Kevin Tanner — primary (person)
- Wendell Willard — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2014-01-13** House Hopper
- **2014-01-14** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2014-01-15** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2014-02-06** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2014-02-10** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2014-02-10** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2014-02-11** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2014-02-20** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2014-02-21** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2014-03-04** Senate Engrossed `passage`
- **2014-03-04** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2014-03-04** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2014-03-24** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2014-04-29** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2014-04-29** Act 662 `executive-signature`
- **2014-04-29** Effective Date

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/79f2033a-6c85-432b-9df5-81d94d5d21c4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).