republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/hb-822.md

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Bill	Sales and use tax; energy used in agriculture; provide for the change in a definition	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 8 of Title 48 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to sales and use tax, so as to provide for a change in a definition; 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 822	Georgia HB 822 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Al Williams Calvin Smyre Christian Coomer James Epps Jay Powell Valerie Clark	2	18	1	2016-01-22	2016-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/0a5505c2-391f-4bf1-9bf1-f84e50fc9df3	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	3d21db2768312c625913f27e2adc7f8258e0697f627f0277670e50aff9cb9992	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 822 (2015_16) — Sales and use tax; energy used in agriculture; provide for the change in a definition

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 8 of Title 48 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to sales and use tax, so as to provide for a change in a definition; 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. HB 822/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 34 4769/a (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 154–10 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Al Williams — primary (person)
• Calvin Smyre — primary (person)
• Christian Coomer — primary (person)
• James Epps — primary (person)
• Jay Powell — primary (person)
• Valerie Clark — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-01-22 House Hopper
• 2016-01-25 House First Readers reading-1
• 2016-01-26 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2016-02-04 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-02-11 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2016-02-11 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2016-02-16 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
• 2016-03-22 Senate Taken from Table
• 2016-03-22 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2016-03-22 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2016-03-29 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2016-04-26 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2016-04-26 Act 453 executive-signature
• 2016-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0a5505c2-391f-4bf1-9bf1-f84e50fc9df3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).