republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2025-26/hb-648.md

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Bill	College Park, City of; ad valorem tax for municipal purposes; homestead exemption; remove income cap	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act providing a homestead exemption from City of College Park ad valorem taxes for municipal purposes for the full amount of the assessed value of the homestead for certain residents of that city who are disabled or who are 65 years of age or older, approved May 1, 2023 (Ga. L. 2023, p. 3696), so as to remove the income cap from such exemption; to provide for compliance with constitutional requirements; to provide for a referendum, effective dates, automatic repeal, 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	2025_26	HB 648	Georgia HB 648 (2025_26)	bill		enacted	Derrick Jackson Kim Schofield Rhonda Burnough Tanya Miller	3	13	2	2025-02-26	2025-05-13	openstates	ocd-bill/117e5add-668f-48dc-8d2a-78e171a31d74	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	1f6f052cda5768771203ce9722e359430ce4d51758eb1deda52ffbb56cda8eb1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 648 (2025_26) — College Park, City of; ad valorem tax for municipal purposes; homestead exemption; remove income cap

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act providing a homestead exemption from City of College Park ad valorem taxes for municipal purposes for the full amount of the assessed value of the homestead for certain residents of that city who are disabled or who are 65 years of age or older, approved May 1, 2023 (Ga. L. 2023, p. 3696), so as to remove the income cap from such exemption; to provide for compliance with constitutional requirements; to provide for a referendum, effective dates, automatic repeal, 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 648/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 47 3162/a (committee substitute) — source
3. Local Ads (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate Vote #250 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 51–0 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #148 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 172–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Derrick Jackson — primary (person)
• Kim Schofield — primary (person)
• Rhonda Burnough — primary (person)
• Tanya Miller — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-26 House Hopper introduction
• 2025-02-27 House First Readers reading-1
• 2025-02-28 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2025-03-04 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-04 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2025-03-04 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2025-03-06 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2025-03-20 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-20 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2025-04-07 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-05-13 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2025-05-13 Act 209 executive-signature
• 2025-05-13 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/117e5add-668f-48dc-8d2a-78e171a31d74. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).