republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2025-26/hb-775.md

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Bill	Butts County; school district ad valorem tax; increase homestead exemption	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act to provide a homestead exemption from Butts County School District ad valorem taxes for educational purposes in the amount of $15,000.00 of the assessed value of the homestead for certain residents of that school district who are 62 years of age or over without regard to their income, approved April 13, 2001 (Ga. L. 2001, p. 4289), so as to increase said homestead exemption to $50,000.00; to provide for compliance with constitutional requirements; to provide for a referendum, effective dates, and automatic repeal; to provide for mandatory execution of election and judicial remedies regarding failure to comply; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2025_26	HB 775	Georgia HB 775 (2025_26)	bill		enacted	Clint Crowe	3	13	2	2025-03-13	2025-05-14	openstates	ocd-bill/7307779c-5c44-4ee8-821d-af64a249adc4	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	598a13f65f1515c72385663a37a8bc6f295792a1b77946ce4cbdfc30c9313cd3	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 775 (2025_26) — Butts County; school district ad valorem tax; increase homestead exemption

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act to provide a homestead exemption from Butts County School District ad valorem taxes for educational purposes in the amount of $15,000.00 of the assessed value of the homestead for certain residents of that school district who are 62 years of age or over without regard to their income, approved April 13, 2001 (Ga. L. 2001, p. 4289), so as to increase said homestead exemption to $50,000.00; to provide for compliance with constitutional requirements; to provide for a referendum, effective dates, and automatic repeal; to provide for mandatory execution of election and judicial remedies regarding failure to comply; 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 775/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 47 3538/a (committee substitute) — source
3. Local Ad (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• House Vote #293 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 158–0 (pass) · lower
• Senate Vote #313 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 53–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Clint Crowe — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-03-13 House Hopper introduction
• 2025-03-18 House First Readers reading-1
• 2025-03-20 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2025-03-21 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-21 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2025-03-21 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2025-03-25 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2025-03-28 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-28 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2025-04-07 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-05-14 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2025-05-14 Act 326 executive-signature
• 2025-05-14 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7307779c-5c44-4ee8-821d-af64a249adc4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).