republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/hb-215.md

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Bill	Equalized Homestead Option Sales Tax Act of 2015; enact	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 8 of Title 48 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to sales and use taxes, so as to provide for an additional exemption to the ceiling on local sales and use taxes which may be levied by a political subdivision; to provide for a revised distribution of the proceeds from the levy of an equalized homestead option sales and use tax; to provide for the levy of a special purpose local options sales and use tax in certain counties; to provide for procedures, conditions, and limitations; to provide for a short title; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	HB 215	Georgia HB 215 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Dar'shun Kendrick Howard Mosby Karla Drenner Mike Jacobs Rahn Mayo Tom Taylor	6	17	1	2015-02-03	2015-05-04	openstates	ocd-bill/cd13cb63-919f-4801-bbe7-4a30364ca446	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	b0fd4042fb4b95f1af1a110b7fb638d4505b9cbd8d469ddb3e670a75b8d0e293	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 215 (2015_16) — Equalized Homestead Option Sales Tax Act of 2015; enact

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 8 of Title 48 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to sales and use taxes, so as to provide for an additional exemption to the ceiling on local sales and use taxes which may be levied by a political subdivision; to provide for a revised distribution of the proceeds from the levy of an equalized homestead option sales and use tax; to provide for the levy of a special purpose local options sales and use tax in certain counties; to provide for procedures, conditions, and limitations; to provide for a short title; 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. Floor Amendment AM 34 0692 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB 215/AP* (committee substitute) — source
3. HB 215/CSFA (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 34 4456/a (committee substitute) — source
5. LC 34 4500S/hs (committee substitute) — source
6. Sen ctee sub HB 215 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 128–35 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Dar'shun Kendrick — primary (person)
• Howard Mosby — primary (person)
• Karla Drenner — primary (person)
• Mike Jacobs — primary (person)
• Rahn Mayo — primary (person)
• Tom Taylor — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-03 House Hopper
• 2015-02-04 House First Readers reading-1
• 2015-02-09 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2015-02-17 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-03-09 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2015-03-09 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2015-03-11 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2015-03-23 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-03-24 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2015-03-25 Senate Engrossed passage
• 2015-03-25 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2015-03-25 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2015-03-31 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
• 2015-04-07 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2015-05-04 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2015-05-04 Act 45 executive-signature
• 2015-05-04 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/cd13cb63-919f-4801-bbe7-4a30364ca446. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).