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type: "Bill"
title: "State Tax Execution Modernization Act; enact"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Titles 11, 15, 44, and 48 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the Uniform Commercial Code, clerks of superior courts, property, and revenue and taxation, respectively, so as to modernize provisions relating to the transmittal, filing, recording, access to, and territorial effect of tax liens issued by the Department of Revenue; to provide for definitions; to provide for modern technological advances in electronic record keeping relating to the filing and public access to state tax liens; to provide for certificates of clearance for state tax liens; to provide for duties and responsibilities of the Georgia Superior Court Clerks' Cooperative Authority; to provide a short title; to provide for related matters, to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2017_18"
identifier: "HB 337"
citation: "Georgia HB 337 (2017_18)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brett Harrell", "Bruce Williamson", "Jay Powell", "Trey Kelley"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 17
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2017-02-10"
last_action: "2018-01-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4b32ee6e-acee-4ee1-8c84-f499cf992037"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "3b5a36d0c02ef9dc0224608434abce1c62e56a4e8604707b0c954f1d8e5b289e"
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 337 (2017_18) — State Tax Execution Modernization Act; enact
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Titles 11, 15, 44, and 48 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the Uniform Commercial Code, clerks of superior courts, property, and revenue and taxation, respectively, so as to modernize provisions relating to the transmittal, filing, recording, access to, and territorial effect of tax liens issued by the Department of Revenue; to provide for definitions; to provide for modern technological advances in electronic record keeping relating to the filing and public access to state tax liens; to provide for certificates of clearance for state tax liens; to provide for duties and responsibilities of the Georgia Superior Court Clerks' Cooperative Authority; to provide a short title; to provide for related matters, to provide for 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.
## Votes
- PASSAGE — **1740** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Brett Harrell — primary (person)
- Bruce Williamson — primary (person)
- Jay Powell — primary (person)
- Trey Kelley — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-02-10** House Hopper
- **2017-02-14** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2017-02-15** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2017-02-21** House Withdrawn, Recommitted `withdrawal, referral-committee`
- **2017-02-24** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-01** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2017-03-01** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2017-03-03** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-14** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-15** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2017-03-20** Senate Engrossed `passage`
- **2017-03-20** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2017-03-20** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2017-04-03** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2017-05-09** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2017-05-09** Act 257 `executive-signature`
- **2018-01-01** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4b32ee6e-acee-4ee1-8c84-f499cf992037`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).