republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2019-20/hb-841.md

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Bill	Bartow County; ad valorem tax for county purposes; increase homestead exemption	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act to provide a homestead exemption from certain Bartow County ad valorem taxes for county purposes in the amount of $5,000.00 of the assessed value of the homestead for certain residents of that county, approved March 24, 1994 (Ga. L. 1994, p. 4058), so as to increase the amount of such homestead exemption to $10,000.00; to provide for related matters; to provide for a referendum, effective dates, and automatic repeal; to provide for applicability; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2019_20	HB 841	Georgia HB 841 (2019_20)	bill		enacted	Matthew Gambill Mitchell Scoggins Trey Kelley	3	13	1	2020-01-29	2020-06-29	openstates	ocd-bill/81b9c671-0f3f-4490-9d97-2fed0eb017d6	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	d6a7afffb6435e0309d29662371e2644695ad5613389b6f47d7a0cb2c4db6064	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 841 (2019_20) — Bartow County; ad valorem tax for county purposes; increase homestead exemption

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act to provide a homestead exemption from certain Bartow County ad valorem taxes for county purposes in the amount of $5,000.00 of the assessed value of the homestead for certain residents of that county, approved March 24, 1994 (Ga. L. 1994, p. 4058), so as to increase the amount of such homestead exemption to $10,000.00; to provide for related matters; to provide for a referendum, effective dates, and automatic repeal; to provide for 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. HB 841/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 28 9415/a (committee substitute) — source
3. Local Ad (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Local Calendar — 167–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Matthew Gambill — primary (person)
• Mitchell Scoggins — primary (person)
• Trey Kelley — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-29 House Hopper
• 2020-01-30 House First Readers reading-1
• 2020-01-31 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2020-02-03 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-02-03 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2020-02-03 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2020-02-04 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2020-02-19 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-02-19 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2020-06-24 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2020-06-29 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2020-06-29 Act 363 executive-signature
• 2020-06-29 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/81b9c671-0f3f-4490-9d97-2fed0eb017d6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).