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type: "Bill"
title: "Revenue and taxation; deduction from income for contributions to savings trust accounts; revise"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 48-7-27 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to computation of taxable net income, so as to revise the deduction from income for contributions to savings trust accounts established pursuant to Article 11 of Chapter 3 of Title 20; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date and applicability; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2015_16"
identifier: "HB 802"
citation: "Georgia HB 802 (2015_16)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chuck Williams", "Earl Ehrhart", "Jan Tankersley", "Kevin Tanner", "Regina Quick", "Sam Teasley"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 18
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2016-01-21"
last_action: "2016-05-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cf55dffc-69ba-4a20-a378-be00711de38c"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "f0105695219cde0d012b3085a317ea607e1a29d9ddbb10ed5768a3cca33fdfc3"
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 802 (2015_16) — Revenue and taxation; deduction from income for contributions to savings trust accounts; revise
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 48-7-27 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to computation of taxable net income, so as to revise the deduction from income for contributions to savings trust accounts established pursuant to Article 11 of Chapter 3 of Title 20; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date and applicability; 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 802/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/162450.pdf)
2. **LC 28 7812/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/155067.pdf)
## Votes
- PASSAGE — **1650** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Chuck Williams — primary (person)
- Earl Ehrhart — primary (person)
- Jan Tankersley — primary (person)
- Kevin Tanner — primary (person)
- Regina Quick — primary (person)
- Sam Teasley — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2016-01-21** House Hopper
- **2016-01-22** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2016-01-25** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2016-02-04** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2016-02-25** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2016-02-25** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2016-02-26** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2016-03-15** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2016-03-15** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2016-03-22** Senate Engrossed `passage`
- **2016-03-22** Senate Tabled
- **2016-03-24** Senate Taken from Table
- **2016-03-24** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2016-03-24** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2016-03-30** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2016-05-03** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2016-05-03** Act 604 `executive-signature`
- **2016-05-03** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cf55dffc-69ba-4a20-a378-be00711de38c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).