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Bill	Jackson County; school district ad valorem tax; require yearly income statements to tax commissioner to continue to receive exemption	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act providing a homestead exemption from Jackson County School District ad valorem taxes for educational purposes in the amount of $10,000.00 of the assessed value of the homestead for certain residents of that school district who are 62 years of age or over who have annual earned family incomes not exceeding $18,000.00, approved March 24, 1994 (Ga. L. 1994, p. 3758), as amended, so as to require yearly income statements to the tax commissioner to continue to receive the exemption; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date and for applicability; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2019_20	HB 1179	Georgia HB 1179 (2019_20)	bill		enacted	Houston Gaines Tommy Benton	3	13	1	2020-06-15	2021-01-01	openstates	ocd-bill/feb699dc-2b50-4419-901e-6ef9662dced0	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	9c118f593a75290c96bbff5edbf2ceaa45809c2c150b4a5780c6c258259e90a2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 1179 (2019_20) — Jackson County; school district ad valorem tax; require yearly income statements to tax commissioner to continue to receive exemption

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act providing a homestead exemption from Jackson County School District ad valorem taxes for educational purposes in the amount of $10,000.00 of the assessed value of the homestead for certain residents of that school district who are 62 years of age or over who have annual earned family incomes not exceeding $18,000.00, approved March 24, 1994 (Ga. L. 1994, p. 3758), as amended, so as to require yearly income statements to the tax commissioner to continue to receive the exemption; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date and for 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 1179/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 47 0468/a (committee substitute) — source
3. Local Ad (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Local Calendar — 156–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Houston Gaines — primary (person)
• Tommy Benton — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-06-15 House Hopper
• 2020-06-15 House First Readers reading-1
• 2020-06-16 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2020-06-19 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-06-19 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2020-06-19 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2020-06-20 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2020-06-24 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-06-24 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2020-06-29 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2020-07-29 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2020-07-29 Act 529 executive-signature
• 2021-01-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/feb699dc-2b50-4419-901e-6ef9662dced0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).