republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2025-26/hb-1070.md

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Bill	Income tax; increase and extend a credit for expenditures on maintenance of railroad track owned or leased by Class III railroads	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 7 of Title 48 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to income tax imposition, rate, computation, exemptions, and credits, so as to increase and extend an income tax credit for expenditures on the maintenance of railroad track owned or leased by Class III railroads; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2025_26	HB 1070	Georgia HB 1070 (2025_26)	bill	PUBLIC UTILITIES AND TRANSPORTATION REVENUE AND TAXATION	enacted	Brent Cox Gerald Greene Leesa Hagan Rick Jasperse Steve Tarvin	3	18	5	2026-01-28	2026-05-12	openstates	ocd-bill/009d4cb6-7cc0-4144-831e-ed8581a94d09	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	372edc1c40b4fd05969edf4146e6bc183e892cb64ccad4ca2c8bad679babf93c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 1070 (2025_26) — Income tax; increase and extend a credit for expenditures on maintenance of railroad track owned or leased by Class III railroads

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 7 of Title 48 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to income tax imposition, rate, computation, exemptions, and credits, so as to increase and extend an income tax credit for expenditures on the maintenance of railroad track owned or leased by Class III railroads; to provide for related matters; 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 1070/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 39 4886/a (committee substitute) — source
3. Sen Ctee Sub LC 59 0447S (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate Vote #826 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 31–18 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #810 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 139–26 (pass) · lower
• House Vote #564 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 167–2 (pass) · lower
• Senate Vote #868 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 44–3 (pass) · upper
• Senate Vote #835 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 26–22 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Brent Cox — primary (person)
• Gerald Greene — primary (person)
• Leesa Hagan — primary (person)
• Rick Jasperse — primary (person)
• Steve Tarvin — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2026-01-28 House Hopper introduction
• 2026-01-29 House First Readers reading-1
• 2026-02-02 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2026-02-11 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-02-25 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2026-02-25 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2026-02-26 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2026-03-19 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-03-20 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2026-03-27 Senate Engrossed passage
• 2026-03-27 Senate Tabled
• 2026-03-27 Senate Taken from Table
• 2026-03-27 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2026-03-27 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2026-03-31 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
• 2026-04-07 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2026-05-12 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2026-05-12 Veto V4 executive-veto

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/009d4cb6-7cc0-4144-831e-ed8581a94d09. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).