---
type: "Bill"
title: "Taxes; provide for legislative findings relating to gasoline and aviation fuel; provisions"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 48-8-17 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the temporary suspension of the collection of taxes on gasoline and aviation fuel, so as to provide for legislative findings; to provide for procedures, conditions, and limitations; to provide for powers, duties, and authority of the state revenue commissioner with respect to the foregoing; to ratify an executive order of the Governor suspending temporarily the collection of such taxes; 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 319"
citation: "Georgia HB 319 (2015_16)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chad Nimmer", "Christian Coomer", "Robert Dickey"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 16
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2015-02-11"
last_action: "2015-04-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2ea10029-991b-4675-a25c-7b5618a8efe4"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "2b3c7c1ea7bf6f58e66e5c6e7e2ef6d7de94a11be5e5f1ab19fc6b95420007e1"
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 319 (2015_16) — Taxes; provide for legislative findings relating to gasoline and aviation fuel; provisions

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 48-8-17 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the temporary suspension of the collection of taxes on gasoline and aviation fuel, so as to provide for legislative findings; to provide for procedures, conditions, and limitations; to provide for powers, duties, and authority of the state revenue commissioner with respect to the foregoing; to ratify an executive order of the Governor suspending temporarily the collection of such taxes; 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 319/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/153471.pdf)
2. **LC 34 4473-EC/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/147560.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **168–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Chad Nimmer — primary (person)
- Christian Coomer — primary (person)
- Robert Dickey — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2015-02-11** House Hopper
- **2015-02-12** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2015-02-17** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2015-03-02** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-03-11** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2015-03-11** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2015-03-13** 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 Third Read `reading-3`
- **2015-03-31** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2015-04-07** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2015-04-15** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2015-04-15** Act 19 `executive-signature`
- **2015-04-15** Effective Date

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2ea10029-991b-4675-a25c-7b5618a8efe4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).