republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2025-26/hb-266.md

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Bill	Income tax; exempt income received as personal compensation for full-time duty in the active military service of the United States	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 the imposition, rate, computation, exemptions, and credits for state income tax, so as to exempt from state income tax income received as personal compensation for full-time duty in the active military service of the United States; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date and applicability; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2025_26	HB 266	Georgia HB 266 (2025_26)	bill	LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS AND AGENCIES MILITARY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AND VETERANS AFFAIRS REVENUE AND TAXATION	enacted	Bethany Ballard David Clark Jesse Petrea Josh Bonner Karen Mathiak Steven Sainz	7	19	6	2025-02-04	2025-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/e76ed622-7208-4560-a1ec-c03280f1d249	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	58c772d0cd5fdddcad424cce6254f963b7ea20f7e09777092836aeed1aef7375	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 266 (2025_26) — Income tax; exempt income received as personal compensation for full-time duty in the active military service of the United States

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 the imposition, rate, computation, exemptions, and credits for state income tax, so as to exempt from state income tax income received as personal compensation for full-time duty in the active military service of the United States; 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. Floor Amendment AM 50 0118 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB 266/AP* (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 50 1209S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 50 1209S/hs (committee substitute) — source
5. LC 50 9000/a (committee substitute) — source
6. Sen Ctee sub LC 50 1224S (committee substitute) — source
7. Sen Floor Amend 1 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate Vote #266 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 32–22 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #264 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 171–0 (pass) · lower
• Senate Vote #412 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 52–0 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #364 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 164–0 (pass) · lower
• House Vote #419 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 167–0 (pass) · lower
• Senate Vote #269 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 53–2 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bethany Ballard — primary (person)
• David Clark — primary (person)
• Jesse Petrea — primary (person)
• Josh Bonner — primary (person)
• Karen Mathiak — primary (person)
• Steven Sainz — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-04 House Hopper introduction
• 2025-02-05 House First Readers reading-1
• 2025-02-06 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2025-03-06 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-06 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2025-03-06 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2025-03-10 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2025-03-13 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-18 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2025-03-21 Senate Engrossed passage
• 2025-03-21 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2025-03-21 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2025-03-31 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub As Amended
• 2025-04-02 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub As Amended
• 2025-04-04 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
• 2025-04-10 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-05-13 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2025-05-13 Act 181 executive-signature
• 2025-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e76ed622-7208-4560-a1ec-c03280f1d249. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).