republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2019-20/sb-410.md

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Bill	Ad Valorem Tax Appeals; alternative means of recovering costs of litigation and attorney's fees; provide	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 48-5-311 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to creation of county boards of equalization, duties, review of assessments, and appeals, so as to provide an alternative means of recovering costs of litigation and attorney's fees in ad valorem tax appeals; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2019_20	SB 410	Georgia SB 410 (2019_20)	bill		enacted	Ben Watson Butch Miller Ellis Black Greg Dolezal Jesse Stone John Kennedy Larry Walker, III Lee Anderson Matt Brass Mike Dugan Steve Gooch William Ligon, Jr.	5	23	1	2020-02-20	2020-07-22	openstates	ocd-bill/f0df63d2-cb72-4402-b47e-58413e114515	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	1175217c7fbee5593c58512a2382cd68d3ec5aa871462a3de0d28633d387eaf5	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 410 (2019_20) — Ad Valorem Tax Appeals; alternative means of recovering costs of litigation and attorney's fees; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 48-5-311 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to creation of county boards of equalization, duties, review of assessments, and appeals, so as to provide an alternative means of recovering costs of litigation and attorney's fees in ad valorem tax appeals; 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.

1. As introduced LC 44 1433 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Floor amend 1 AM 44 0148 (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 43 1675S/hss (committee substitute) — source
5. SB410/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• MOTION TO ENGROSS: SB 463, SB 410, SB 480 — 34–21 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ben Watson — primary (person)
• Butch Miller — primary (person)
• Ellis Black — primary (person)
• Greg Dolezal — primary (person)
• Jesse Stone — primary (person)
• John Kennedy — primary (person)
• Larry Walker, III — primary (person)
• Lee Anderson — primary (person)
• Matt Brass — primary (person)
• Mike Dugan — primary (person)
• Steve Gooch — primary (person)
• William Ligon, Jr. — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-02-20 Senate Hopper
• 2020-02-21 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2020-03-03 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-03-04 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2020-03-12 Senate Engrossed passage
• 2020-03-12 Senate Tabled
• 2020-03-12 Senate Taken from Table
• 2020-03-12 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2020-03-12 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2020-03-13 House First Readers reading-1
• 2020-06-15 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2020-06-16 House Withdrawn, Recommitted withdrawal, referral-committee
• 2020-06-18 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-06-23 House Postponed
• 2020-06-24 House Postponed
• 2020-06-25 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2020-06-25 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2020-06-26 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub As Amended
• 2020-06-26 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
• 2020-06-29 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2020-07-22 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2020-07-22 Act 482 executive-signature
• 2020-07-22 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f0df63d2-cb72-4402-b47e-58413e114515. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).