---
type: "Bill"
title: "Handicapped persons; ABLE program establishment to use tax exempt accounts to pay for qualified expenses of eligible individuals with disabilities; provisions"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 30 of the O.C.G.A., relating to disabled persons, so as to provide for the establishment of a qualified ABLE program in this state to enable the contribution of funds to tax-exempt accounts to pay for the qualified expenses of eligible individuals with disabilities; to amend Code Section 48-7-27 of the O.C.G.A., relating to computation of taxable net income; to amend Code Section 50-13-2 of the O.C.G.A., relating to the definitions for purposes of the Georgia Administrative Procedure Act, so as to exclude the Georgia ABLE Program Corporation from the meaning of \"agency\"; 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: "2015_16"
identifier: "HB 768"
citation: "Georgia HB 768 (2015_16)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jan Jones", "Lee Hawkins", "Scot Turner", "Terry England", "Virgil Fludd", "Wendell Willard"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 17
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2016-01-14"
last_action: "2016-05-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/39ae3fc2-dff6-4837-b2df-2fdc9688f6e7"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "e46b8d23034ed089f2778a829e95d7a34abaa39485bb9d9f665c78c83ec1ed00"
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 768 (2015_16) — Handicapped persons; ABLE program establishment to use tax exempt accounts to pay for qualified expenses of eligible individuals with disabilities; provisions

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 30 of the O.C.G.A., relating to disabled persons, so as to provide for the establishment of a qualified ABLE program in this state to enable the contribution of funds to tax-exempt accounts to pay for the qualified expenses of eligible individuals with disabilities; to amend Code Section 48-7-27 of the O.C.G.A., relating to computation of taxable net income; to amend Code Section 50-13-2 of the O.C.G.A., relating to the definitions for purposes of the Georgia Administrative Procedure Act, so as to exclude the Georgia ABLE Program Corporation from the meaning of "agency"; 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. **Floor amend 1 AM 33 1622** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/160316.pdf)
2. **HB 768/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/162459.pdf)
3. **LC 33 6294/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/154636.pdf)
4. **LC 33 6510S/hcs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/158509.pdf)
5. **LC 33 6510S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/157822.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **161–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jan Jones — primary (person)
- Lee Hawkins — primary (person)
- Scot Turner — primary (person)
- Terry England — primary (person)
- Virgil Fludd — primary (person)
- Wendell Willard — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2016-01-14** House Hopper
- **2016-01-15** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2016-01-20** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2016-02-17** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2016-02-23** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2016-02-23** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2016-02-24** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2016-03-10** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2016-03-11** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2016-03-14** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2016-03-14** Senate Passed/Adopted As Amended `passage`
- **2016-03-16** House Disagreed Senate Amend or Sub
- **2016-03-24** Senate Receded from Amend or Sub
- **2016-03-30** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2016-05-03** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2016-05-03** Act 519 `executive-signature`
- **2016-05-03** Effective Date

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/39ae3fc2-dff6-4837-b2df-2fdc9688f6e7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).