republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2025-26/hb-847.md

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Bill	Cobb County; tax commissioner and certain employees; change compensation	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act consolidating the offices of tax collector and tax receiver into the office of tax commissioner of Cobb County, approved February 17, 1949 (Ga. L. 1949, p. 790), as amended, so as to change the compensation of the tax commissioner and certain employees of such office; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2025_26	HB 847	Georgia HB 847 (2025_26)	bill		enacted	Devan Seabaugh John Carson Jordan Ridley Lisa Campbell Mekyah McQueen Terry Cummings	3	15	2	2025-03-25	2026-05-11	openstates	ocd-bill/eb7b3f40-6331-4bf9-901b-0e5463575a33	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	6cf3c198ec52d668f774f4b054332f63ac38b47b71911edc6e8f13ed562ef1b9	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 847 (2025_26) — Cobb County; tax commissioner and certain employees; change compensation

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act consolidating the offices of tax collector and tax receiver into the office of tax commissioner of Cobb County, approved February 17, 1949 (Ga. L. 1949, p. 790), as amended, so as to change the compensation of the tax commissioner and certain employees of such office; 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 847/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 47 3507/a (committee substitute) — source
3. Local Ad (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate Vote #761 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 44–0 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #342 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 165–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Devan Seabaugh — primary (person)
• John Carson — primary (person)
• Jordan Ridley — primary (person)
• Lisa Campbell — primary (person)
• Mekyah McQueen — primary (person)
• Terry Cummings — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-03-25 House Hopper introduction
• 2025-03-25 House First Readers reading-1
• 2025-03-27 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2025-03-31 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-31 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2025-03-31 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2025-03-31 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2025-04-04 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-01-12 Senate Recommitted referral-committee
• 2026-03-20 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-03-20 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2026-04-06 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2026-05-11 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2026-05-11 Act 521 executive-signature
• 2026-05-11 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/eb7b3f40-6331-4bf9-901b-0e5463575a33. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).