republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2023-24/hb-591.md

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Bill	DeKalb County; increase income cap on homestead exemption for citizens age 65 or older meeting certain income requirements; provisions	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act to provide that each resident of DeKalb County who is 65 years of age or over or disabled and whose net income together with the net income of the spouse and all members of the family who reside at the homestead of such resident does not exceed $15,000.00 per annum shall be granted an exemption from all DeKalb County ad valorem taxes, except county school district taxes, in the amount of $14,000.00 of the value of the homestead of such resident, approved March 15, 1988 (Ga. L. 1988, p. 4114), so as to increase the income cap on said homestead exemption to $37,500.00; to provide for mandatory execution of election and judicial remedies regarding failure to comply; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2023_24	HB 591	Georgia HB 591 (2023_24)	bill		enacted	Becky Evans Billy Mitchell Karen Bennett Karla Drenner Long Tran Omari Crawford	3	13	2	2023-02-27	2023-05-01	openstates	ocd-bill/3477ac2b-f1cf-41cc-aa34-1b1da69a332d	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	5cca733fd094758ad34dda9ba8d04ba79af5336a7e74f47275f78e7c52ace6ce	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 591 (2023_24) — DeKalb County; increase income cap on homestead exemption for citizens age 65 or older meeting certain income requirements; provisions

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act to provide that each resident of DeKalb County who is 65 years of age or over or disabled and whose net income together with the net income of the spouse and all members of the family who reside at the homestead of such resident does not exceed $15,000.00 per annum shall be granted an exemption from all DeKalb County ad valorem taxes, except county school district taxes, in the amount of $14,000.00 of the value of the homestead of such resident, approved March 15, 1988 (Ga. L. 1988, p. 4114), so as to increase the income cap on said homestead exemption to $37,500.00; to provide for mandatory execution of election and judicial remedies regarding failure to comply; 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 591/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 47 2128/a (committee substitute) — source
3. Local Ad (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• House Vote #271 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 162–0 (pass) · lower
• Senate Vote #338 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 52–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Becky Evans — primary (person)
• Billy Mitchell — primary (person)
• Karen Bennett — primary (person)
• Karla Drenner — primary (person)
• Long Tran — primary (person)
• Omari Crawford — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-27 House Hopper introduction
• 2023-02-28 House First Readers reading-1
• 2023-03-01 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2023-03-23 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-03-23 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2023-03-23 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2023-03-23 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2023-03-27 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-03-29 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2023-04-05 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2023-05-01 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2023-05-01 Act 152 executive-signature
• 2023-05-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3477ac2b-f1cf-41cc-aa34-1b1da69a332d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).