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Bill	Special district mass transportation sales and use tax; intergovernmental agreements; revise requirements	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 1 of Article 5A of Chapter 8 of Title 48 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the special district mass transportation sales and use tax, so as to revise requirements for intergovernmental agreements between counties and qualified municipalities for collection of such tax; to provide for standards for disbursement of proceeds for municipalities absent from an intergovernmental agreement; to revise the maximum amount and time frame for the collection of such tax when an intergovernmental agreement has been entered into between a county and all qualified municipalities; to provide for definitions; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; to provide for applicability; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2023_24	HB 946	Georgia HB 946 (2023_24)	bill		enacted	Brent Cox Chris Erwin Derrick McCollum Emory Dunahoo Lee Hawkins Victor Anderson	4	16	3	2024-01-12	2024-05-06	openstates	ocd-bill/616af61d-4318-417a-b130-2b9ee12db0f7	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	2ddd07af43a44631b9804d161a506dd8da1b3a9f71096c014bae347a9ce15e72	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 946 (2023_24) — Special district mass transportation sales and use tax; intergovernmental agreements; revise requirements

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 1 of Article 5A of Chapter 8 of Title 48 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the special district mass transportation sales and use tax, so as to revise requirements for intergovernmental agreements between counties and qualified municipalities for collection of such tax; to provide for standards for disbursement of proceeds for municipalities absent from an intergovernmental agreement; to revise the maximum amount and time frame for the collection of such tax when an intergovernmental agreement has been entered into between a county and all qualified municipalities; to provide for definitions; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; 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 946/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 39 4068/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 50 0730S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 50 0730S/hs (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate Vote #763 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 32–20 (pass) · upper
• Senate Vote #770 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 42–1 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #503 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 173–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Brent Cox — primary (person)
• Chris Erwin — primary (person)
• Derrick McCollum — primary (person)
• Emory Dunahoo — primary (person)
• Lee Hawkins — primary (person)
• Victor Anderson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-12 House Hopper introduction
• 2024-01-22 House First Readers reading-1
• 2024-01-23 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2024-02-08 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-02-20 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2024-02-20 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2024-02-21 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2024-03-05 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-07 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2024-03-26 Senate Engrossed passage
• 2024-03-26 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2024-03-26 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2024-04-02 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-05-06 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2024-05-06 Act 578 executive-signature
• 2024-05-06 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/616af61d-4318-417a-b130-2b9ee12db0f7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).