republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2023-24/hb-593.md

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Bill	DeKalb County; increase income cap on homestead exemption for citizens 62 years or older meeting certain income requirements; provisions	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend a former local constitutional amendment (Ga. L. 1982, p. 2659), which former local constitutional amendment was continued in effect as statutory law pursuant to Article VII, Section II, Paragraph IV of the Constitution of Georgia and which provided that each resident of the DeKalb County School District who is 62 years of age or over or who is disabled and whose gross income, together with the gross income of the spouse and all members of the family who reside at and occupy the homestead of such resident, does not exceed $16,000.00 per annum shall be granted an exemption from all DeKalb County School District ad valorem taxes on $20,000.00 of the value of the homestead owned and occupied by such resident, so as to increase the income cap on said homestead exemption to $40,000.00; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2023_24	HB 593	Georgia HB 593 (2023_24)	bill		enacted	Becky Evans Billy Mitchell Karen Bennett Karla Drenner Long Tran Omari Crawford	3	13	2	2023-02-27	2023-05-01	openstates	ocd-bill/e4eaaec8-c7d2-4f7c-9bdc-47f80556a938	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	f3650f3270d7400c36b17a67ac359f51468623656ccd2be1236aa959d1747558	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 593 (2023_24) — DeKalb County; increase income cap on homestead exemption for citizens 62 years or older meeting certain income requirements; provisions

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend a former local constitutional amendment (Ga. L. 1982, p. 2659), which former local constitutional amendment was continued in effect as statutory law pursuant to Article VII, Section II, Paragraph IV of the Constitution of Georgia and which provided that each resident of the DeKalb County School District who is 62 years of age or over or who is disabled and whose gross income, together with the gross income of the spouse and all members of the family who reside at and occupy the homestead of such resident, does not exceed $16,000.00 per annum shall be granted an exemption from all DeKalb County School District ad valorem taxes on $20,000.00 of the value of the homestead owned and occupied by such resident, so as to increase the income cap on said homestead exemption to $40,000.00; 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 593/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 47 2130/a (committee substitute) — source
3. Local Ad (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate Vote #338 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 52–0 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #271 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 162–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Becky Evans — primary (person)
• Billy Mitchell — primary (person)
• Karen Bennett — primary (person)
• Karla Drenner — primary (person)
• Long Tran — primary (person)
• Omari Crawford — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-27 House Hopper introduction
• 2023-02-28 House First Readers reading-1
• 2023-03-01 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2023-03-23 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-03-23 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2023-03-23 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2023-03-23 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2023-03-27 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-03-29 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2023-04-03 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2023-05-01 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2023-05-01 Act 153 executive-signature
• 2023-05-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e4eaaec8-c7d2-4f7c-9bdc-47f80556a938. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).