republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/hb-991.md

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Bill	Ad valorem tax; property; change certain definitions	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 5 of Title 48 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to ad valorem taxation of property, so as to change certain definitions regarding such taxation; to provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	HB 991	Georgia HB 991 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Bill Hitchens Bruce Williamson Jay Powell	4	16	1	2016-02-11	2016-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/4d0e873b-f741-41c7-9315-8c0239809089	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	95e96f070b65fb66e40e3ff4a85da4d8084d9e3948c7becfa6acafcea658d80f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 991 (2015_16) — Ad valorem tax; property; change certain definitions

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 5 of Title 48 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to ad valorem taxation of property, so as to change certain definitions regarding such taxation; 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 991/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 34 4817/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 34 4888S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 34 4888S/hs (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 149–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bill Hitchens — primary (person)
• Bruce Williamson — primary (person)
• Jay Powell — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-11 House Hopper
• 2016-02-16 House First Readers reading-1
• 2016-02-17 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2016-02-23 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
• 2016-03-14 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-03-14 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
• 2016-04-28 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2016-04-28 Act 494 executive-signature
• 2016-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4d0e873b-f741-41c7-9315-8c0239809089. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).