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type: "Bill"
title: "Sales and Use Taxes; equalized homestead option sales and use taxes; provide certain restrictions"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 8 of Title 48 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to sales and use taxes, so as to provide certain restrictions with regard to equalized homestead option sales and use taxes; to provide for limitations on the collection of certain other taxes while such equalized homestead option sales and use tax is being levied; to provide for the sales on which such tax may be levied; to provide limitation on the use of special purpose local option sales taxes which are levied in conjunction with an equalized homestead option sales and use tax; to provide for related matters; to provide an effective date and applicability; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2017_18"
identifier: "SB 156"
citation: "Georgia SB 156 (2017_18)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bill Cowsert", "David Shafer", "Fran Millar", "Jeff Mullis", "John Albers"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 19
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2017-02-10"
last_action: "2017-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4c7c8595-3ff7-4912-8f17-455daef5de9c"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "604dfac0ea57926c1918ecf2e082e547f776606830dd4d11da99c373382a141e"
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 SB 156 (2017_18) — Sales and Use Taxes; equalized homestead option sales and use taxes; provide certain restrictions
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 8 of Title 48 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to sales and use taxes, so as to provide certain restrictions with regard to equalized homestead option sales and use taxes; to provide for limitations on the collection of certain other taxes while such equalized homestead option sales and use tax is being levied; to provide for the sales on which such tax may be levied; to provide limitation on the use of special purpose local option sales taxes which are levied in conjunction with an equalized homestead option sales and use tax; to provide for related matters; to provide 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.
## Votes
- MORNING ROLL CALL — **480** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Bill Cowsert — primary (person)
- David Shafer — primary (person)
- Fran Millar — primary (person)
- Jeff Mullis — primary (person)
- John Albers — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-02-10** Senate Hopper
- **2017-02-14** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-23** Senate Committee Favorably Reported As Amended `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-24** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2017-02-27** Senate Engrossed `passage`
- **2017-02-27** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2017-02-27** Senate Passed/Adopted As Amended `passage`
- **2017-02-28** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2017-03-01** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2017-03-22** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-24** House Withdrawn, Recommitted `withdrawal, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-24** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-28** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2017-03-28** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2017-03-30** Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
- **2017-04-07** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2017-05-08** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2017-05-08** Act 206 `executive-signature`
- **2017-05-08** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4c7c8595-3ff7-4912-8f17-455daef5de9c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).