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type: "Bill"
title: "Sales and use tax; certain voluntary contributions; exclude from definition of retail sales"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 8 of Title 48 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to state sales and use taxes, so as to exclude from the definition of retail sales certain voluntary contributions for admission; 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: "2017_18"
identifier: "HB 117"
citation: "Georgia HB 117 (2017_18)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dominic LaRiccia", "John Corbett", "Sam Watson", "Trey Kelley"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 17
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2017-01-24"
last_action: "2017-05-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/037689ab-9487-4d6a-9877-b576a2072c07"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "476da53422a9da2b8d92396b23dddbeec6e44898f6bda5553a3584d029d617a3"
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 117 (2017_18) — Sales and use tax; certain voluntary contributions; exclude from definition of retail sales
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 8 of Title 48 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to state sales and use taxes, so as to exclude from the definition of retail sales certain voluntary contributions for admission; 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.
## Votes
- PASSAGE — **1700** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Dominic LaRiccia — primary (person)
- John Corbett — primary (person)
- Sam Watson — primary (person)
- Trey Kelley — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-01-24** House Hopper
- **2017-01-25** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2017-01-26** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2017-02-09** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-15** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2017-02-15** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2017-02-16** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-03** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-06** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2017-03-24** Senate Engrossed `passage`
- **2017-03-28** Senate Tabled
- **2017-03-30** Senate Taken from Table
- **2017-03-30** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2017-04-05** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2017-05-01** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2017-05-01** Act 49 `executive-signature`
- **2017-05-01** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/037689ab-9487-4d6a-9877-b576a2072c07`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).