republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2025-26/hb-445.md

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Bill	Ad valorem tax; language required to be included in notices of current assessment; revise	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 5 of Title 48 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to ad valorem taxation of property, so as to revise the language required to be included in the notices of current assessment; to add hearing officer review for tax assessment of certain business personal property; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2025_26	HB 445	Georgia HB 445 (2025_26)	bill	PROPERTY REVENUE AND TAXATION	enacted	Charles Martin	6	25	5	2025-02-13	2026-05-11	openstates	ocd-bill/2d272b14-9de3-474f-90f9-6a48f3b08e1f	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	6d39b478b8a705efe61272ee7d578c08f73ca785416f3e218051a308da4515da	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 445 (2025_26) — Ad valorem tax; language required to be included in notices of current assessment; revise

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 5 of Title 48 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to ad valorem taxation of property, so as to revise the language required to be included in the notices of current assessment; to add hearing officer review for tax assessment of certain business personal property; 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. Fiscal Note (committee substitute) — source
2. Floor Amendment AM 44 0290 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB 445/AP* (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 50 1095/a (committee substitute) — source
5. Sen Ctee Sub LC 59 0451S (committee substitute) — source
6. Sen Ctee sub LC 50 1268S (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate Vote #880 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 46–0 (pass) · upper
• Senate Vote #383 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 31–24 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #222 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 167–0 (pass) · lower
• House Vote #838 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 171–1 (pass) · lower
• Senate Vote #965 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 52–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Charles Martin — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-13 House Hopper introduction
• 2025-02-18 House First Readers reading-1
• 2025-02-19 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2025-02-26 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-06 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2025-03-06 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2025-03-10 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2025-03-20 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-21 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2025-03-28 Senate Recommitted referral-committee
• 2025-03-31 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-02 Senate Engrossed passage
• 2025-04-02 Senate Tabled
• 2026-01-12 Senate Taken from Table
• 2026-01-12 Senate Recommitted referral-committee
• 2026-03-16 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-03-19 Senate Recommitted referral-committee
• 2026-03-20 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-03-31 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2026-03-31 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2026-04-02 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub As Amended
• 2026-04-02 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2026-04-10 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2026-05-11 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2026-05-11 Act 464 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2d272b14-9de3-474f-90f9-6a48f3b08e1f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).