---
type: "Bill"
title: "Income tax; claimant agency; revise definition"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 7 of Chapter 7 of Title 48 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to setoff debt collection relative to income taxes, so as to revise the definition of the term \"claimant agency\"; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2015_16"
identifier: "HB 275"
citation: "Georgia HB 275 (2015_16)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brett Harrell", "Brian Strickland", "David Knight", "Howard Maxwell", "Matt Ramsey", "Trey Kelley"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 18
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2015-02-09"
last_action: "2015-05-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8f444bed-bf0b-4c8c-99a2-8fc36a058bf4"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "e9dcde34fedc8a50702c5e5687d3b5415e270fbbdd1ef6c4130e76c2acfd6fda"
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 275 (2015_16) — Income tax; claimant agency; revise definition

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 7 of Chapter 7 of Title 48 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to setoff debt collection relative to income taxes, so as to revise the definition of the term "claimant agency"; 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 275/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/153835.pdf)
2. **LC 34 4466/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/147091.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **168–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Brett Harrell — primary (person)
- Brian Strickland — primary (person)
- David Knight — primary (person)
- Howard Maxwell — primary (person)
- Matt Ramsey — primary (person)
- Trey Kelley — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2015-02-09** House Hopper
- **2015-02-10** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2015-02-11** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2015-03-02** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-03-04** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2015-03-04** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2015-03-05** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-27** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-03-27** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2015-03-31** Senate Engrossed `passage`
- **2015-03-31** Senate Tabled
- **2015-04-02** Senate Taken from Table
- **2015-04-02** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2015-04-02** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2015-04-08** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2015-05-06** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2015-05-06** Act 135 `executive-signature`
- **2015-05-06** Effective Date

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8f444bed-bf0b-4c8c-99a2-8fc36a058bf4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).