republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2019-20/hb-164.md

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Bill	Jackson County; school district ad valorem tax; change net income limitation	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 senior citizens 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 change the net income limitation for receiving such exemptions from $18,000.00 to $25,000.00, not including certain retirement income; to provide for a referendum, effective dates, and automatic repeal; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2019_20	HB 164	Georgia HB 164 (2019_20)	bill		enacted	Houston Gaines Tommy Benton	3	13	1	2019-02-06	2019-04-30	openstates	ocd-bill/2b085375-9e9e-44e0-98a2-0be3b1c177f6	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	858f03caf86dc21dacd288e8cd166bca23f0908ea2791c11e162f2afbbc9017c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 164 (2019_20) — Jackson County; school district ad valorem tax; change net income limitation

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 senior citizens 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 change the net income limitation for receiving such exemptions from $18,000.00 to $25,000.00, not including certain retirement income; to provide for a referendum, effective dates, and automatic repeal; 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.

1. HB 164/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 28 8947/a (committee substitute) — source
3. Local Ad (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Local Calendar Without — 156–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

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

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-06 House Hopper
• 2019-02-07 House First Readers reading-1
• 2019-02-08 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2019-02-13 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-02-13 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2019-02-13 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2019-02-14 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2019-02-25 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-02-25 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2019-04-04 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2019-04-30 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2019-04-30 Act 101 executive-signature
• 2019-04-30 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2b085375-9e9e-44e0-98a2-0be3b1c177f6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).