republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/hb-802.md

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Bill	Revenue and taxation; deduction from income for contributions to savings trust accounts; revise	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 48-7-27 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to computation of taxable net income, so as to revise the deduction from income for contributions to savings trust accounts established pursuant to Article 11 of Chapter 3 of Title 20; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date and applicability; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	HB 802	Georgia HB 802 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Chuck Williams Earl Ehrhart Jan Tankersley Kevin Tanner Regina Quick Sam Teasley	2	18	1	2016-01-21	2016-05-03	openstates	ocd-bill/cf55dffc-69ba-4a20-a378-be00711de38c	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	f0105695219cde0d012b3085a317ea607e1a29d9ddbb10ed5768a3cca33fdfc3	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 802 (2015_16) — Revenue and taxation; deduction from income for contributions to savings trust accounts; revise

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 48-7-27 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to computation of taxable net income, so as to revise the deduction from income for contributions to savings trust accounts established pursuant to Article 11 of Chapter 3 of Title 20; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date and 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 802/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 28 7812/a (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 165–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Chuck Williams — primary (person)
• Earl Ehrhart — primary (person)
• Jan Tankersley — primary (person)
• Kevin Tanner — primary (person)
• Regina Quick — primary (person)
• Sam Teasley — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-01-21 House Hopper
• 2016-01-22 House First Readers reading-1
• 2016-01-25 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2016-02-04 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-02-25 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2016-02-25 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2016-02-26 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
• 2016-03-22 Senate Engrossed passage
• 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 passage
• 2016-03-30 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2016-05-03 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2016-05-03 Act 604 executive-signature
• 2016-05-03 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/cf55dffc-69ba-4a20-a378-be00711de38c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).