republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2013-14/hb-755.md

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Bill	Ad valorem tax; revised definition of forest land fair market value; provisions	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 5 of Title 48 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to ad valorem taxation of property, so as to provide for a revised definition of forest land fair market value; to provide for conditions, procedures, and limitations for ad valorem property tax litigation in superior court; to provide for conditions, procedures, and limitations on the approval of tax digests when assessments are in arbitration or on appeal; to provide for the valuation of property which is under appeal as to its assessed value; to provide for procedures, conditions, and limitations regarding refunds of taxes and license fees by counties and municipalities; to provide for related matters; to provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2013_14	HB 755	Georgia HB 755 (2013_14)	bill		enacted	Chad Nimmer David Knight Jay Powell John Meadows Terry England Tom McCall	4	18	1	2014-01-16	2014-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/b7b6ffb2-874c-4cb4-952c-ebd1f27c4a4d	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	f69eb5e3f84502b1b58115d1102b6029c0bc4588a0eab69990eb0f5845011e74	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 755 (2013_14) — Ad valorem tax; revised definition of forest land fair market value; provisions

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 5 of Title 48 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to ad valorem taxation of property, so as to provide for a revised definition of forest land fair market value; to provide for conditions, procedures, and limitations for ad valorem property tax litigation in superior court; to provide for conditions, procedures, and limitations on the approval of tax digests when assessments are in arbitration or on appeal; to provide for the valuation of property which is under appeal as to its assessed value; to provide for procedures, conditions, and limitations regarding refunds of taxes and license fees by counties and municipalities; to provide for related matters; to provide an effective date; 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 755/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 34 4166ERS/hcs (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 34 4166ERS/hs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 39 3954/a (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 166–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Chad Nimmer — primary (person)
• David Knight — primary (person)
• Jay Powell — primary (person)
• John Meadows — primary (person)
• Terry England — primary (person)
• Tom McCall — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2014-01-16 House Hopper
• 2014-01-17 House First Readers reading-1
• 2014-01-21 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2014-02-20 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2014-02-25 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2014-02-25 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2014-02-26 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2014-03-11 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2014-03-11 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2014-03-18 Senate Engrossed passage
• 2014-03-18 Senate Tabled
• 2014-03-20 Senate Taken from Table
• 2014-03-20 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2014-03-20 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2014-03-26 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2014-04-24 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2014-04-24 Act 612 executive-signature
• 2014-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b7b6ffb2-874c-4cb4-952c-ebd1f27c4a4d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).