republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2025-26/sb-77.md

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Bill	City of Cartersville; independent school district ad valorem taxes for educational purposes; provide a homestead exemption	A BILL to be entitled an Act to provide a homestead exemption from City of Cartersville independent school district ad valorem taxes for educational purposes in an amount equal to the amount by which the current year assessed value of a homestead exceeds the adjusted base year assessed value of such homestead; to provide for definitions; to specify the terms and conditions of the exemption and the procedures relating thereto; to provide for applicability; 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 provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2025_26	SB 77	Georgia SB 77 (2025_26)	bill		enacted	Chuck Hufstetler Ed Setzler	8	15	3	2025-02-03	2025-05-09	openstates	ocd-bill/d779ed37-0bf9-4e4b-8fa3-3cfe8e66d526	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	2d415044c8e9853788fb926370feb40ba0654020c1b83664210e0c699956f194	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 77 (2025_26) — City of Cartersville; independent school district ad valorem taxes for educational purposes; provide a homestead exemption

A BILL to be entitled an Act to provide a homestead exemption from City of Cartersville independent school district ad valorem taxes for educational purposes in an amount equal to the amount by which the current year assessed value of a homestead exceeds the adjusted base year assessed value of such homestead; to provide for definitions; to specify the terms and conditions of the exemption and the procedures relating thereto; to provide for applicability; 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 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 44 2924 (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 44 3022S (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 44 3122S/hss (committee substitute) — source
5. SB 77 Local Ad (committee substitute) — source
6. SB 77/AP* (committee substitute) — source
7. Sen Floor Amend 1 AM 44 0211 (committee substitute) — source
8. Sen Floor Amend 2 AM 44 0214 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate Vote #62 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 51–0 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #148 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 172–0 (pass) · lower
• Senate Vote #274 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 55–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Chuck Hufstetler — primary (person)
• Ed Setzler — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-03 Senate Hopper introduction
• 2025-02-04 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2025-02-19 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-02-19 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2025-02-20 House First Readers reading-1
• 2025-02-21 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2025-03-04 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-04 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2025-03-04 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2025-03-21 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub As Amended
• 2025-03-27 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
• 2025-04-07 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-05-09 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2025-05-09 Act 107 executive-signature
• 2025-05-09 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d779ed37-0bf9-4e4b-8fa3-3cfe8e66d526. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).