republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/hb-951.md

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Bill	Sales and use tax; admissions to major sporting events; create exemption	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 48-8-3 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to exemptions from state sales and use taxes, so as to create a new exemption for admissions to major sporting events; to provide a definition; 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 951	Georgia HB 951 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Bruce Williamson Calvin Smyre Chad Nimmer Jay Powell Robert Dickey Stacey Abrams	10	15	1	2016-02-09	2016-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/9cb0f5df-bc22-4bb6-aca5-75b9eb94aa28	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	a3abd6d86a5e4b2b7b5ccfa3191a70bd0c4e123fed401675ae97f34ab200d286	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 951 (2015_16) — Sales and use tax; admissions to major sporting events; create exemption

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 48-8-3 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to exemptions from state sales and use taxes, so as to create a new exemption for admissions to major sporting events; to provide a definition; 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. Floor amend 1 (committee substitute) — source
2. Floor amend 2 (committee substitute) — source
3. Floor amend 3 (committee substitute) — source
4. Floor amend 4 (committee substitute) — source
5. Floor amend 5 (committee substitute) — source
6. Floor amend 6 (committee substitute) — source
7. HB 951/AP* (committee substitute) — source
8. LC 34 4805/a (committee substitute) — source
9. LC 34 4897ERS/hcs (committee substitute) — source
10. LC 34 4897ERS/hs (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 127–22 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bruce Williamson — primary (person)
• Calvin Smyre — primary (person)
• Chad Nimmer — primary (person)
• Jay Powell — primary (person)
• Robert Dickey — primary (person)
• Stacey Abrams — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-09 House Hopper
• 2016-02-10 House First Readers reading-1
• 2016-02-11 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2016-02-24 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-02-26 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2016-02-26 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2016-02-29 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2016-03-07 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-03-08 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2016-03-15 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2016-03-15 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2016-03-28 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2016-04-21 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2016-04-21 Act 327 executive-signature
• 2016-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9cb0f5df-bc22-4bb6-aca5-75b9eb94aa28. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).