republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2025-26/hb-697.md

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Bill	Chickamauga, City of; ad valorem tax; educational purposes; provide homestead exemption	A BILL to be entitled an Act to provide a homestead exemption from City of Chickamauga independent school district ad valorem taxes for educational purposes in the amount of $50,000.00 of the assessed value of the homestead for residents of such school district who are 70 years of age or older; to provide a homestead exemption from City of Chickamauga independent school district ad valorem taxes for educational purposes in the amount of the full assessed value of the homestead for residents of such school district who are 75 years of age or older; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2025_26	HB 697	Georgia HB 697 (2025_26)	bill		enacted	Mike Cameron Steve Tarvin	3	13	2	2025-03-03	2025-05-13	openstates	ocd-bill/41da88dd-2d3b-4121-b985-3dc8c2e7ca22	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	26c41f6f59a1d2d999dfafb98114ab510bbf0454907d41dc3ead393491a3527b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 697 (2025_26) — Chickamauga, City of; ad valorem tax; educational purposes; provide homestead exemption

A BILL to be entitled an Act to provide a homestead exemption from City of Chickamauga independent school district ad valorem taxes for educational purposes in the amount of $50,000.00 of the assessed value of the homestead for residents of such school district who are 70 years of age or older; to provide a homestead exemption from City of Chickamauga independent school district ad valorem taxes for educational purposes in the amount of the full assessed value of the homestead for residents of such school district who are 75 years of age or older; 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. HB 697/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 61 0136/a (committee substitute) — source
3. Local Ad (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate Vote #277 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 52–0 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #270 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 165–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Mike Cameron — primary (person)
• Steve Tarvin — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-03-03 House Hopper introduction
• 2025-03-04 House First Readers reading-1
• 2025-03-06 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2025-03-10 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-10 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2025-03-10 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2025-03-11 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2025-03-25 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-25 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 210 executive-signature
• 2025-05-13 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/41da88dd-2d3b-4121-b985-3dc8c2e7ca22. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).