republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2025-26/hb-1526.md

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Bill	Early County; repeal a former local constitutional amendment	A BILL to be entitled an Act to repeal a former local constitutional amendment (Ga. L. 1962, p. 808), 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 a five year exemption from local ad valorem property taxes to any person who built, equipped, established, completed, or enlarged a plant for manufacturing or processing in Early County; to provide that exemptions granted prior to the effective date of this Act shall continue for the remainder of their unexpired terms; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2025_26	HB 1526	Georgia HB 1526 (2025_26)	bill		enacted	Gerald Greene	3	16	2	2026-03-09	2026-05-12	openstates	ocd-bill/29a80c8a-f930-41e9-8699-21c9aeeada76	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	1dac5491c3c424d255cde35f7c29722d76b5c31e2a4f5dffb0bc3d38a5150bf8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 1526 (2025_26) — Early County; repeal a former local constitutional amendment

A BILL to be entitled an Act to repeal a former local constitutional amendment (Ga. L. 1962, p. 808), 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 a five year exemption from local ad valorem property taxes to any person who built, equipped, established, completed, or enlarged a plant for manufacturing or processing in Early County; to provide that exemptions granted prior to the effective date of this Act shall continue for the remainder of their unexpired terms; 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 1526/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 47 4027/a (committee substitute) — source
3. Local Ad (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate Vote #886 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 47–0 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #734 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 153–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Gerald Greene — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2026-03-09 House Hopper introduction
• 2026-03-10 House First Readers reading-1
• 2026-03-12 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2026-03-20 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-03-20 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2026-03-20 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2026-03-23 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2026-03-25 Senate Withdrawn & Recommitted referral-committee, withdrawal
• 2026-03-27 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-03-27 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2026-03-31 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2026-03-31 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2026-04-07 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2026-05-12 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2026-05-12 Act 669 executive-signature
• 2026-05-12 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/29a80c8a-f930-41e9-8699-21c9aeeada76. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).