republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2021-22/hb-317.md

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Bill	Excise tax; revise definition of innkeeper to include marketplace facilitators; provisions	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 3 of Chapter 13 of Title 48 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to excise tax on rooms, lodgings, and accommodations, so as to revise the definition of "innkeeper" to include marketplace facilitators; to define the term "marketplace innkeeper"; to expand the state levy of a nightly excise tax to include all rooms, lodgings, and accommodations; to provide for exceptions; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date and applicability; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2021_22	HB 317	Georgia HB 317 (2021_22)	bill		enacted	Bonnie Rich John Carson Matt Dollar Ron Stephens Spencer Frye Vance Smith	7	20	1	2021-02-04	2021-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/17fd91c3-c809-47af-b59b-ab8708d4e37b	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	8048224504bc40f284dfdd4eaa4150e80f835bdb05880b5d2f50aa26ce9a1209	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 317 (2021_22) — Excise tax; revise definition of innkeeper to include marketplace facilitators; provisions

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 3 of Chapter 13 of Title 48 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to excise tax on rooms, lodgings, and accommodations, so as to revise the definition of "innkeeper" to include marketplace facilitators; to define the term "marketplace innkeeper"; to expand the state levy of a nightly excise tax to include all rooms, lodgings, and accommodations; to provide for exceptions; to provide for related matters; to provide for 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.

1. Fiscal Note LC 43 1783 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB 317/AP* (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 43 1783/a (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 43 1905S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
5. LC 43 1905S/hs (committee substitute) — source
6. Sen ctee sub LC 43 2026S (committee substitute) — source
7. Sen ctee sub LC 43 2037S (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 147–22 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bonnie Rich — primary (person)
• John Carson — primary (person)
• Matt Dollar — primary (person)
• Ron Stephens — primary (person)
• Spencer Frye — primary (person)
• Vance Smith — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-04 House Hopper
• 2021-02-08 House First Readers reading-1
• 2021-02-09 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2021-02-18 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-03-08 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2021-03-08 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2021-03-09 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2021-03-25 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-03-25 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2021-03-29 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-03-29 Senate Engrossed passage
• 2021-03-29 Senate Tabled
• 2021-03-31 Senate Taken from Table
• 2021-03-31 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2021-03-31 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2021-03-31 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
• 2021-04-09 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2021-04-21 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2021-04-21 Act 21 executive-signature
• 2021-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/17fd91c3-c809-47af-b59b-ab8708d4e37b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).