republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/hb-426.md

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Bill	Sales and use tax; provide new exemption only for limited period of time regarding tangible personal property to certain nonprofit health centers; provisions	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 48-8-3 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to exemptions from sales and use tax, so as to provide a new exemption from state sales and use tax only for a limited period of time regarding the sale or use of tangible personal property to certain nonprofit health centers; to provide a new exemption for a limited period of time with respect to certain nonprofit volunteer health clinics; to provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	HB 426	Georgia HB 426 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Barbara Sims Calvin Smyre Darlene Taylor Debbie Buckner Ron Stephens Stacey Abrams	5	19	1	2015-02-20	2015-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/a8948fe7-a352-4c2e-9a25-c27199b3ac70	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	4c4e0cfdc75055eda248369db6f20a3b02fe88bf1ebf2518df17c776a524d3b1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 426 (2015_16) — Sales and use tax; provide new exemption only for limited period of time regarding tangible personal property to certain nonprofit health centers; provisions

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 48-8-3 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to exemptions from sales and use tax, so as to provide a new exemption from state sales and use tax only for a limited period of time regarding the sale or use of tangible personal property to certain nonprofit health centers; to provide a new exemption for a limited period of time with respect to certain nonprofit volunteer health clinics; 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 426/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 34 4527/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 34 4612S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 34 4612S/hs (committee substitute) — source
5. Sen ctee sub LC 34 4655S (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 164–3 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Barbara Sims — primary (person)
• Calvin Smyre — primary (person)
• Darlene Taylor — primary (person)
• Debbie Buckner — primary (person)
• Ron Stephens — primary (person)
• Stacey Abrams — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-20 House Hopper
• 2015-02-20 House First Readers reading-1
• 2015-02-23 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2015-03-09 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-03-13 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2015-03-13 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2015-03-18 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2015-03-27 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute 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 By Substitute passage
• 2015-04-02 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
• 2015-04-08 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2015-05-12 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2015-05-12 Act 202 executive-signature
• 2015-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a8948fe7-a352-4c2e-9a25-c27199b3ac70. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).