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type: "Bill"
title: "Local government; procedures for real property owners to make claims for compensation for loss of property value or expenses incurred; provisions"
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2025_26"
identifier: "HB 295"
citation: "Georgia HB 295 (2025_26)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["LOCAL GOVERNMENT"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Clint Crowe", "Houston Gaines", "Jan Jones", "Jesse Petrea", "Rob Leverett", "Victor Anderson"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 20
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2025-02-05"
last_action: "2026-05-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6ab827d0-0d65-46f5-9a0e-5fb31b399f47"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "5fdacbd9d0b7794fe6218e16fb8463cfebf2370b5b1e33d3e9020ed6059640f3"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["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](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/249025.pdf)
2. **HB 295/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/249087.pdf)
3. **LC 47 3298/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/231495.pdf)
4. **LC 47 3424S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/233159.pdf)
5. **LC 63 0070S/hcs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/245052.pdf)
6. **LC 63 0070S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/240801.pdf)
7. **SFA to HB 295** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/248944.pdf)
8. **Sen Floor Amend 1 AM 49 0328** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/248199.pdf)
9. **Sen Floor Amend 1A AM 62 0076** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/248884.pdf)
10. **Sen Floor Amend 2 AM 62 0075** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/248775.pdf)
11. **Sen Floor Amend 3 AM 59 0035** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/248881.pdf)
## 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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6ab827d0-0d65-46f5-9a0e-5fb31b399f47`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).