republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/hb-596.md

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Bill	DeKalb County; homestead exemption; modify time limitation on exemption	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act providing for a homestead exemption from certain DeKalb County ad valorem taxes for county purposes in an amount equal to the amount by which the current year assessed value of a homestead exceeds the base year assessed value of such homestead, approved May 5, 2006 (Ga. L. 2006, p. 4636), as amended, so as to modify the time limitation on such exemption; to provide for a referendum, effective dates, and automatic repeal; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	HB 596	Georgia HB 596 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Billy Mitchell Dar'shun Kendrick Karla Drenner Mike Jacobs Scott Holcomb Tom Taylor	4	13	1	2015-03-11	2015-05-12	openstates	ocd-bill/a0d4ef9f-6698-4c4d-9a69-8f8c81019713	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	186b792d293c0c825fb3b4a271da91fbf37c5955eb300ea4fd5fa63328a53d60	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 596 (2015_16) — DeKalb County; homestead exemption; modify time limitation on exemption

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act providing for a homestead exemption from certain DeKalb County ad valorem taxes for county purposes in an amount equal to the amount by which the current year assessed value of a homestead exceeds the base year assessed value of such homestead, approved May 5, 2006 (Ga. L. 2006, p. 4636), as amended, so as to modify the time limitation on such exemption; to provide for a referendum, effective dates, and automatic repeal; 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 596/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 21 3716/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 28 7622S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 28 7622S/hs (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Local Calendar — 131–21 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Billy Mitchell — primary (person)
• Dar'shun Kendrick — primary (person)
• Karla Drenner — primary (person)
• Mike Jacobs — primary (person)
• Scott Holcomb — primary (person)
• Tom Taylor — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-03-11 House Hopper
• 2015-03-11 House First Readers reading-1
• 2015-03-13 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2015-03-26 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-03-26 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2015-03-26 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2015-03-27 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2015-03-31 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-03-31 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2015-04-07 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2015-05-12 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2015-05-12 Act 264 executive-signature
• 2015-05-12 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a0d4ef9f-6698-4c4d-9a69-8f8c81019713. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).