republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2025-26/sb-306.md

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Bill	Bona Fide Conservation Use Property; impending expiration to be sent via certified mail; require notices	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 48-5-7.4 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to preferential assessment for bona fide conservation use property and bona fide residential transitional property, so as to require notices of impending expiration to be sent via certified mail; to provide for the reinstatement of certain covenants and preferential assessments in certain limited circumstances; to provide for appeals and refunds; to prohibit additional fees or interest; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2025_26	SB 306	Georgia SB 306 (2025_26)	bill	REVENUE AND TAXATION	enacted	Randy Robertson	6	17	4	2025-02-27	2026-05-06	openstates	ocd-bill/bdf3ef86-91f2-4967-b70e-4d9c368ebab8	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	c2526a01f2f1c02fd33deeaf585d3065ffd3b10ea6a008ddb742b483bbaf651a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 306 (2025_26) — Bona Fide Conservation Use Property; impending expiration to be sent via certified mail; require notices

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 48-5-7.4 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to preferential assessment for bona fide conservation use property and bona fide residential transitional property, so as to require notices of impending expiration to be sent via certified mail; to provide for the reinstatement of certain covenants and preferential assessments in certain limited circumstances; to provide for appeals and refunds; to prohibit additional fees or interest; 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. As Passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
2. As introduced LC 50 1187 (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee Sub LC 59 0392S (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 44 3555S/hrcs (committee substitute) — source
5. LC 59 0452S/hss (committee substitute) — source
6. SB 306/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate Vote #963 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 52–0 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #758 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 158–9 (pass) · lower
• Senate Vote #615 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 31–22 (pass) · upper
• Senate Vote #636 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 49–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Randy Robertson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-27 Senate Hopper introduction
• 2025-02-28 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2026-02-26 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-03-03 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2026-03-04 Senate Engrossed passage
• 2026-03-04 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2026-03-04 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2026-03-06 House First Readers reading-1
• 2026-03-09 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2026-03-20 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-03-25 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2026-03-25 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2026-04-02 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2026-04-10 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2026-05-06 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2026-05-06 Act 431 executive-signature
• 2026-05-06 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/bdf3ef86-91f2-4967-b70e-4d9c368ebab8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).