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type: "Bill"
title: "Excise tax; revise definition of innkeeper to include marketplace facilitators; provisions"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 3 of Chapter 13 of Title 48 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to excise tax on rooms, lodgings, and accommodations, so as to revise the definition of \"innkeeper\" to include marketplace facilitators; to define the term \"marketplace innkeeper\"; to expand the state levy of a nightly excise tax to include all rooms, lodgings, and accommodations; to provide for exceptions; 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: "2021_22"
identifier: "HB 317"
citation: "Georgia HB 317 (2021_22)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bonnie Rich", "John Carson", "Matt Dollar", "Ron Stephens", "Spencer Frye", "Vance Smith"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 20
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-02-04"
last_action: "2021-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/17fd91c3-c809-47af-b59b-ab8708d4e37b"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "8048224504bc40f284dfdd4eaa4150e80f835bdb05880b5d2f50aa26ce9a1209"
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 317 (2021_22) — Excise tax; revise definition of innkeeper to include marketplace facilitators; provisions
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 3 of Chapter 13 of Title 48 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to excise tax on rooms, lodgings, and accommodations, so as to revise the definition of "innkeeper" to include marketplace facilitators; to define the term "marketplace innkeeper"; to expand the state levy of a nightly excise tax to include all rooms, lodgings, and accommodations; to provide for exceptions; 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. **Fiscal Note LC 43 1783** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/198054.pdf)
2. **HB 317/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/202458.pdf)
3. **LC 43 1783/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/196861.pdf)
4. **LC 43 1905S/hcs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/200029.pdf)
5. **LC 43 1905S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/198049.pdf)
6. **Sen ctee sub LC 43 2026S** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/201421.pdf)
7. **Sen ctee sub LC 43 2037S** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/201703.pdf)
## Votes
- PASSAGE — **147–22** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Bonnie Rich — primary (person)
- John Carson — primary (person)
- Matt Dollar — primary (person)
- Ron Stephens — primary (person)
- Spencer Frye — primary (person)
- Vance Smith — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-02-04** House Hopper
- **2021-02-08** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2021-02-09** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2021-02-18** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-08** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2021-03-08** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2021-03-09** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-25** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-25** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2021-03-29** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-29** Senate Engrossed `passage`
- **2021-03-29** Senate Tabled
- **2021-03-31** Senate Taken from Table
- **2021-03-31** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2021-03-31** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2021-03-31** House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
- **2021-04-09** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-21** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2021-04-21** Act 21 `executive-signature`
- **2021-07-01** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/17fd91c3-c809-47af-b59b-ab8708d4e37b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).