republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/hb-768.md

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Bill	Handicapped persons; ABLE program establishment to use tax exempt accounts to pay for qualified expenses of eligible individuals with disabilities; provisions	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 30 of the O.C.G.A., relating to disabled persons, so as to provide for the establishment of a qualified ABLE program in this state to enable the contribution of funds to tax-exempt accounts to pay for the qualified expenses of eligible individuals with disabilities; to amend Code Section 48-7-27 of the O.C.G.A., relating to computation of taxable net income; to amend Code Section 50-13-2 of the O.C.G.A., relating to the definitions for purposes of the Georgia Administrative Procedure Act, so as to exclude the Georgia ABLE Program Corporation from the meaning of "agency"; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	HB 768	Georgia HB 768 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Jan Jones Lee Hawkins Scot Turner Terry England Virgil Fludd Wendell Willard	5	17	1	2016-01-14	2016-05-03	openstates	ocd-bill/39ae3fc2-dff6-4837-b2df-2fdc9688f6e7	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	e46b8d23034ed089f2778a829e95d7a34abaa39485bb9d9f665c78c83ec1ed00	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 768 (2015_16) — Handicapped persons; ABLE program establishment to use tax exempt accounts to pay for qualified expenses of eligible individuals with disabilities; provisions

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 30 of the O.C.G.A., relating to disabled persons, so as to provide for the establishment of a qualified ABLE program in this state to enable the contribution of funds to tax-exempt accounts to pay for the qualified expenses of eligible individuals with disabilities; to amend Code Section 48-7-27 of the O.C.G.A., relating to computation of taxable net income; to amend Code Section 50-13-2 of the O.C.G.A., relating to the definitions for purposes of the Georgia Administrative Procedure Act, so as to exclude the Georgia ABLE Program Corporation from the meaning of "agency"; to provide for related matters; to provide for 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. Floor amend 1 AM 33 1622 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB 768/AP* (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 33 6294/a (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 33 6510S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
5. LC 33 6510S/hs (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 161–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Jan Jones — primary (person)
• Lee Hawkins — primary (person)
• Scot Turner — primary (person)
• Terry England — primary (person)
• Virgil Fludd — primary (person)
• Wendell Willard — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-01-14 House Hopper
• 2016-01-15 House First Readers reading-1
• 2016-01-20 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2016-02-17 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-02-23 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2016-02-23 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2016-02-24 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2016-03-10 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-03-11 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2016-03-14 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2016-03-14 Senate Passed/Adopted As Amended passage
• 2016-03-16 House Disagreed Senate Amend or Sub
• 2016-03-24 Senate Receded from Amend or Sub
• 2016-03-30 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2016-05-03 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2016-05-03 Act 519 executive-signature
• 2016-05-03 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/39ae3fc2-dff6-4837-b2df-2fdc9688f6e7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).