republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2019-20/sb-65.md

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Bill	Alternative Ad Valorem Tax on Motor Vehicles; transfer of a title between legal entities owned by the same person; not constitute a taxable event; provide	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 5C of Title 48 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to alternative ad valorem tax on motor vehicles, so as to provide that the transfer of a title between legal entities owned by the same person does not constitute a taxable event; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2019_20	SB 65	Georgia SB 65 (2019_20)	bill		enacted	Greg Kirk Jeff Mullis Lee Anderson P. K. Martin IV Steve Gooch Tyler Harper William Ligon, Jr.	5	17	1	2019-02-06	2020-01-01	openstates	ocd-bill/61dd2623-5d66-4044-99c4-6f5949a7ec26	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	0b0f86a1453a8ac87fcf9a8abcb3d0e7282b0a35389557708737226d2f1fa309	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 65 (2019_20) — Alternative Ad Valorem Tax on Motor Vehicles; transfer of a title between legal entities owned by the same person; not constitute a taxable event; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 5C of Title 48 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to alternative ad valorem tax on motor vehicles, so as to provide that the transfer of a title between legal entities owned by the same person does not constitute a taxable event; 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 28 9070 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 43 1254S (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 28 9353S/hss (committee substitute) — source
5. SB 65/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — 54–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Greg Kirk — primary (person)
• Jeff Mullis — primary (person)
• Lee Anderson — primary (person)
• P. K. Martin IV — primary (person)
• Steve Gooch — primary (person)
• Tyler Harper — primary (person)
• William Ligon, Jr. — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-06 Senate Hopper
• 2019-02-07 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2019-02-22 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-02-25 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2019-02-27 Senate Engrossed passage
• 2019-02-27 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2019-02-27 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2019-02-28 House First Readers reading-1
• 2019-03-01 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2019-03-21 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-03-26 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2019-03-26 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2019-03-28 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2019-04-05 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2019-05-07 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2019-05-07 Act 300 executive-signature
• 2020-01-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/61dd2623-5d66-4044-99c4-6f5949a7ec26. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).