republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2025-26/hb-295.md

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Bill	Local government; procedures for real property owners to make claims for compensation for loss of property value or expenses incurred; provisions	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 60 of Title 36 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions applicable to counties and municipal corporations, so as to provide procedures for real property owners to make claims for compensation from local governments for loss of property value or expenses incurred due to the local government's failure to comply with or nonenforcement of certain laws, ordinances, and resolutions or due to the local government maintaining a public nuisance; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2025_26	HB 295	Georgia HB 295 (2025_26)	bill	LOCAL GOVERNMENT	enacted	Clint Crowe Houston Gaines Jan Jones Jesse Petrea Rob Leverett Victor Anderson	11	20	9	2025-02-05	2026-05-12	openstates	ocd-bill/6ab827d0-0d65-46f5-9a0e-5fb31b399f47	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	5fdacbd9d0b7794fe6218e16fb8463cfebf2370b5b1e33d3e9020ed6059640f3	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 295 (2025_26) — Local government; procedures for real property owners to make claims for compensation for loss of property value or expenses incurred; provisions

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 60 of Title 36 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions applicable to counties and municipal corporations, so as to provide procedures for real property owners to make claims for compensation from local governments for loss of property value or expenses incurred due to the local government's failure to comply with or nonenforcement of certain laws, ordinances, and resolutions or due to the local government maintaining a public nuisance; and for other purposes.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Floor Amendment AM 44 0295 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB 295/AP* (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 47 3298/a (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 47 3424S/hs (committee substitute) — source
5. LC 63 0070S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
6. LC 63 0070S/hs (committee substitute) — source
7. SFA to HB 295 (committee substitute) — source
8. Sen Floor Amend 1 AM 49 0328 (committee substitute) — source
9. Sen Floor Amend 1A AM 62 0076 (committee substitute) — source
10. Sen Floor Amend 2 AM 62 0075 (committee substitute) — source
11. Sen Floor Amend 3 AM 59 0035 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate Vote #912 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 39–10 (pass) · upper
• Senate Vote #938 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 30–22 (pass) · upper
• Senate Vote #987 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 34–19 (pass) · upper
• Senate Vote #937 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 44–9 (pass) · upper
• Senate Vote #935 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 32–21 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #612 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 98–75 (pass) · lower
• House Vote #866 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 93–76 (pass) · lower
• Senate Vote #936 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 29–24 (pass) · upper
• Senate Vote #934 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 23–30 (fail) · upper

Sponsors

• Clint Crowe — primary (person)
• Houston Gaines — primary (person)
• Jan Jones — primary (person)
• Jesse Petrea — primary (person)
• Rob Leverett — primary (person)
• Victor Anderson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-05 House Hopper introduction
• 2025-02-06 House First Readers reading-1
• 2025-02-10 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2025-02-20 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-04 House Withdrawn, Recommitted referral-committee, withdrawal
• 2026-01-29 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-03-04 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2026-03-04 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2026-03-06 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2026-03-27 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-03-27 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2026-03-31 Senate Tabled
• 2026-04-02 Senate Taken from Table
• 2026-04-02 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2026-04-02 Senate Passed/Adopted As Amended passage
• 2026-04-02 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub As Amended
• 2026-04-02 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2026-04-10 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2026-05-12 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2026-05-12 Act 713 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6ab827d0-0d65-46f5-9a0e-5fb31b399f47. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).