republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/hb-726.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Excise tax; tobacco products; clarify certain charges	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 11 of Title 48 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to taxes on tobacco products, so as to clarify that certain charges are not subject to state excise tax; to provide for related matters; to provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	HB 726	Georgia HB 726 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Alan Powell Allen Peake Brett Harrell Geoff Duncan James Epps Kevin Tanner	2	15	1	2016-01-11	2016-05-03	openstates	ocd-bill/8c157db8-a32c-481f-b7f6-b4f5b13e62c7	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	218c6f556671ae8bae1f1d46cd0a3bb78835f42a1bf9b65e5d1c963ef8568c24	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 726 (2015_16) — Excise tax; tobacco products; clarify certain charges

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 11 of Title 48 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to taxes on tobacco products, so as to clarify that certain charges are not subject to state excise tax; to provide for related matters; 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 726/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 34 4723/a (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 163–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Alan Powell — primary (person)
• Allen Peake — primary (person)
• Brett Harrell — primary (person)
• Geoff Duncan — primary (person)
• James Epps — primary (person)
• Kevin Tanner — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-01-11 House Hopper
• 2016-01-12 House First Readers reading-1
• 2016-01-13 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2016-02-04 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-02-10 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2016-02-10 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2016-02-11 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2016-03-15 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-03-15 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2016-03-16 Senate Engrossed passage
• 2016-03-16 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2016-03-16 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2016-03-28 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2016-05-03 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2016-05-03 Veto V7 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8c157db8-a32c-481f-b7f6-b4f5b13e62c7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).