---
type: "Bill"
title: "Water and sewer projects and costs tax (MOST); additional renewals of tax; allow"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 4 of Chapter 8 of Title 48 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the water and sewer projects and costs tax (MOST), so as to allow for additional renewals of the tax; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2017_18"
identifier: "HB 929"
citation: "Georgia HB 929 (2017_18)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chuck Efstration", "Jay Powell", "Jon Burns"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 16
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2018-02-13"
last_action: "2018-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cd2ae4ac-e5e8-429d-8e2c-7d8e068e4347"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "6f29abe288f717b86af778d0c5b7443b9bc7aa0443bc0dfcc99300ecfe2ba00f"
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 929 (2017_18) — Water and sewer projects and costs tax (MOST); additional renewals of tax; allow

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 4 of Chapter 8 of Title 48 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the water and sewer projects and costs tax (MOST), so as to allow for additional renewals of the tax; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.


## Votes

- PASSAGE — **172–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Chuck Efstration — primary (person)
- Jay Powell — primary (person)
- Jon Burns — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-13** House Hopper
- **2018-02-14** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2018-02-15** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2018-02-20** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-28** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2018-02-28** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2018-03-01** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-14** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-15** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2018-03-27** Senate Engrossed `passage`
- **2018-03-27** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2018-03-27** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2018-04-04** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2018-05-03** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-03** Act 394 `executive-signature`
- **2018-07-01** Effective Date

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cd2ae4ac-e5e8-429d-8e2c-7d8e068e4347`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).