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type: "Bill"
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title: "DeKalb County; increase income cap on homestead exemption for citizens 62 years or older meeting certain income requirements; provisions"
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description: "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."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
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legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
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session: "2023_24"
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identifier: "HB 593"
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citation: "Georgia HB 593 (2023_24)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Becky Evans", "Billy Mitchell", "Karen Bennett", "Karla Drenner", "Long Tran", "Omari Crawford"]
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version_count: 3
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action_count: 13
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2023-02-27"
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last_action: "2023-05-01"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e4eaaec8-c7d2-4f7c-9bdc-47f80556a938"
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source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
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source_hash: "f3650f3270d7400c36b17a67ac359f51468623656ccd2be1236aa959d1747558"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ga"]
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---
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# Georgia HB 593 (2023_24) — DeKalb County; increase income cap on homestead exemption for citizens 62 years or older meeting certain income requirements; provisions
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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.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **HB 593/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20232024/220021.pdf)
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2. **LC 47 2130/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20232024/216102.pdf)
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3. **Local Ad** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20232024/216200.pdf)
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## Votes
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- Senate Vote #338 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — **52–0** (pass) · upper
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- House Vote #271 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — **162–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Becky Evans — primary (person)
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- Billy Mitchell — primary (person)
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- Karen Bennett — primary (person)
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- Karla Drenner — primary (person)
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- Long Tran — primary (person)
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- Omari Crawford — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2023-02-27** House Hopper `introduction`
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- **2023-02-28** House First Readers `reading-1`
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- **2023-03-01** House Second Readers `reading-2`
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- **2023-03-23** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2023-03-23** House Third Readers `reading-3`
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- **2023-03-23** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
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- **2023-03-23** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
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- **2023-03-27** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2023-03-29** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
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- **2023-04-03** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
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- **2023-05-01** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
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- **2023-05-01** Act 153 `executive-signature`
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- **2023-05-01** Effective Date
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e4eaaec8-c7d2-4f7c-9bdc-47f80556a938`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
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