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type: "Bill"
title: "Facilitating Business Rapid Response to State Declared Disasters Act of 2014; enact"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 2 of Title 48 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to state administration and enforcement of taxation, so as to grant immunity to certain tax liabilities for businesses and employees entering Georgia to repair damage due to a disaster or emergency; to provide for a short title; to provide for definitions; to provide for procedures, conditions, and limitations; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2013_14"
identifier: "HB 782"
citation: "Georgia HB 782 (2013_14)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alan Powell", "Allen Peake", "Bill Hitchens", "Bruce Williamson", "Jason Shaw", "Stacey Abrams"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2014-01-21"
last_action: "2014-04-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8139994a-9b90-441c-999c-065d2b608bda"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "4e97c2f31373582cf432b0f2ac0df045a85fb4cb16e6a6d0c75224991be10820"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ga"]
---
# Georgia HB 782 (2013_14) — Facilitating Business Rapid Response to State Declared Disasters Act of 2014; enact
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 2 of Title 48 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to state administration and enforcement of taxation, so as to grant immunity to certain tax liabilities for businesses and employees entering Georgia to repair damage due to a disaster or emergency; to provide for a short title; to provide for definitions; to provide for procedures, conditions, and limitations; 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 782/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/144452.pdf)
2. **LC 34 4016ER/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/137744.pdf)
3. **LC 34 4110ERS/hcs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/141394.pdf)
4. **LC 34 4110ERS/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/140824.pdf)
## Votes
- PASSAGE — **164–0** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Alan Powell — primary (person)
- Allen Peake — primary (person)
- Bill Hitchens — primary (person)
- Bruce Williamson — primary (person)
- Jason Shaw — primary (person)
- Stacey Abrams — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2014-01-21** House Hopper
- **2014-01-22** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2014-01-23** 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`
- **2014-03-07** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2014-03-10** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2014-03-13** Senate Engrossed `passage`
- **2014-03-13** Senate Tabled
- **2014-03-18** Senate Taken from Table
- **2014-03-18** Senate Tabled
- **2014-03-18** Senate Taken from Table
- **2014-03-18** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2014-03-18** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2014-03-26** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2014-04-15** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2014-04-15** Act 510 `executive-signature`
- **2014-04-15** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8139994a-9b90-441c-999c-065d2b608bda`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).