republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/hb-63.md

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Bill	Georgia Employer GED Tax Credit Act of 2015; enact	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 7 of Title 48 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the imposition, computation, and rate of and exemptions from state income taxes, so as to revise the amount of the adult basic skills education program tax credit; to provide for procedures, conditions, and limitations; to provide an aggregate cap on the amount of the tax credit; to provide for a short title; to provide for an effective date and for applicability; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	HB 63	Georgia HB 63 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Brooks Coleman James Epps Kevin Tanner Stacey Evans Terry England Tom Dickson	5	19	1	2015-01-14	2015-05-01	openstates	ocd-bill/4660469d-467e-4060-a974-3a8dd2a16972	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	eddcf166889b96a2145039b89a69471a21b5175d9e4f34ac0757b14ea27e76d2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 63 (2015_16) — Georgia Employer GED Tax Credit Act of 2015; enact

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 7 of Title 48 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the imposition, computation, and rate of and exemptions from state income taxes, so as to revise the amount of the adult basic skills education program tax credit; to provide for procedures, conditions, and limitations; to provide an aggregate cap on the amount of the tax credit; to provide for a short title; to provide for an effective date and for applicability; 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 63/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 34 4348/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 34 4431S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 34 4431S/hs (committee substitute) — source
5. Sen ctee sub LC 34 4669S (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 170–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Brooks Coleman — primary (person)
• James Epps — primary (person)
• Kevin Tanner — primary (person)
• Stacey Evans — primary (person)
• Terry England — primary (person)
• Tom Dickson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-01-14 House Hopper
• 2015-01-15 House First Readers reading-1
• 2015-01-26 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2015-02-17 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-02-20 House Postponed
• 2015-02-23 House Postponed
• 2015-02-24 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2015-02-24 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2015-02-25 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 Third Read reading-3
• 2015-03-31 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2015-04-02 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
• 2015-04-09 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2015-05-01 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2015-05-01 Act 44 executive-signature
• 2015-05-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4660469d-467e-4060-a974-3a8dd2a16972. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).