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type: "Bill"
title: "Sales and use tax; sale or use of tangible personal property to certain nonprofit health centers; extend exemption for five additional years"
description: "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 sales and use tax, so as to extend an exemption from state sales and use tax for five additional years regarding the sale or use of tangible personal property to certain nonprofit health centers; to extend an exemption for five additional years with respect to certain nonprofit volunteer health clinics; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2017_18"
identifier: "HB 697"
citation: "Georgia HB 697 (2017_18)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Betty Price", "Butch Parrish", "Darlene Taylor", "Mack Jackson", "Richard Smith", "Sharon Cooper"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 16
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2018-01-18"
last_action: "2018-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/54ab599e-ea19-4f90-ae8e-5a5df8615a32"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "efeddb745e8e8ec5ae297048309c4f65701c31caa0107bee7db56397f8d640a7"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ga"]
---
# Georgia HB 697 (2017_18) — Sales and use tax; sale or use of tangible personal property to certain nonprofit health centers; extend exemption for five additional years
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 sales and use tax, so as to extend an exemption from state sales and use tax for five additional years regarding the sale or use of tangible personal property to certain nonprofit health centers; to extend an exemption for five additional years with respect to certain nonprofit volunteer health clinics; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
## Votes
- PASSAGE — **1683** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Betty Price — primary (person)
- Butch Parrish — primary (person)
- Darlene Taylor — primary (person)
- Mack Jackson — primary (person)
- Richard Smith — primary (person)
- Sharon Cooper — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-01-18** House Hopper
- **2018-01-19** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2018-01-22** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2018-02-08** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-21** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2018-02-21** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2018-02-22** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-14** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-15** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2018-03-27** Senate Engrossed `passage`
- **2018-03-27** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2018-03-27** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2018-04-02** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2018-05-03** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-03** Act 369 `executive-signature`
- **2018-07-01** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/54ab599e-ea19-4f90-ae8e-5a5df8615a32`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).