republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/hb-51.md

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Bill	Taxes; amount payable at redemption of property; change provisions	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 3 of Chapter 4 of Title 48 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to redemption of property sold for taxes, so as to change provisions relating to the amount payable at redemption; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	HB 51	Georgia HB 51 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Bill Werkheiser Ron Stephens Tommy Benton	6	18	1	2015-01-13	2016-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/f360f898-5db5-4d2a-bd5b-331e806adb75	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	f2d5c1a2d9a0be8fa84dd2635afb879eb2913297dc0fc4d1279eee82af166753	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 51 (2015_16) — Taxes; amount payable at redemption of property; change provisions

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 3 of Chapter 4 of Title 48 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to redemption of property sold for taxes, so as to change provisions relating to the amount payable at redemption; 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.

1. HB 51/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 29 6402S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 29 6402S/hs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 34 4295/a (committee substitute) — source
5. Sen Floor AM 1 AM 43 0042 (committee substitute) — source
6. Sen ctee sub LC 41 0654S (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 152–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bill Werkheiser — primary (person)
• Ron Stephens — primary (person)
• Tommy Benton — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-01-13 House Hopper
• 2015-01-14 House First Readers reading-1
• 2015-01-15 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2015-02-19 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-03-02 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2015-03-02 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2015-03-03 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2016-01-27 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-01-28 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2016-03-22 Senate Tabled
• 2016-03-24 Senate Taken from Table
• 2016-03-24 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2016-03-24 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2016-03-24 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
• 2016-04-04 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2016-05-03 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2016-05-03 Act 600 executive-signature
• 2016-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f360f898-5db5-4d2a-bd5b-331e806adb75. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).