republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2023-24/sb-340.md

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Bill	Sales and Use Taxes; firearm safes and firearm safety devices; exempt	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 48-8-3 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to exemptions from sales and use taxes, so as to exempt sales of firearm safes and firearm safety devices; to provide for definitions; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2023_24	SB 340	Georgia SB 340 (2023_24)	bill		enacted	Ben Watson Bo Hatchett Brian Strickland Chuck Hufstetler Chuck Payne Jason Anavitarte Jason Esteves John Albers Kay Kirkpatrick Kim Jackson Larry Walker, III Matt Brass Randy Robertson Rick Williams Shawn Still Sonya Halpern Steve Gooch	5	17	4	2024-01-09	2024-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/3b0a713a-241b-4496-8230-cef27c944a32	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	4b4d6e30f581937ccfa967dda8e7b2dbfe22f96b4bd62eae24c3b396518c2ca7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 340 (2023_24) — Sales and Use Taxes; firearm safes and firearm safety devices; exempt

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 48-8-3 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to exemptions from sales and use taxes, so as to exempt sales of firearm safes and firearm safety devices; to provide for definitions; 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 43 2922 (committee substitute) — source
2. As Passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 50 0869S/hss (committee substitute) — source
4. SB 340 Fiscal Note (committee substitute) — source
5. SB 340/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate Vote #498 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 46–1 (pass) · upper
• Senate Vote #492 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 30–18 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #726 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 169–1 (pass) · lower
• Senate Vote #844 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 42–10 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ben Watson — primary (person)
• Bo Hatchett — primary (person)
• Brian Strickland — primary (person)
• Chuck Hufstetler — primary (person)
• Chuck Payne — primary (person)
• Jason Anavitarte — primary (person)
• Jason Esteves — primary (person)
• John Albers — primary (person)
• Kay Kirkpatrick — primary (person)
• Kim Jackson — primary (person)
• Larry Walker, III — primary (person)
• Matt Brass — primary (person)
• Randy Robertson — primary (person)
• Rick Williams — primary (person)
• Shawn Still — primary (person)
• Sonya Halpern — primary (person)
• Steve Gooch — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-09 Senate Hopper introduction
• 2024-01-10 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2024-01-25 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-01-26 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2024-02-13 Senate Engrossed passage
• 2024-02-13 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2024-02-13 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2024-02-15 House First Readers reading-1
• 2024-02-16 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2024-03-18 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-20 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2024-03-20 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2024-03-28 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2024-04-04 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-04-30 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2024-04-30 Act 497 executive-signature
• 2024-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3b0a713a-241b-4496-8230-cef27c944a32. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).