republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2025-26/hb-519.md

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Bill	Revenue and taxation; amount of federal work opportunity credit claimed by a taxpayer shall also be allowed as a tax credit; provide	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 imposition, rate, computation, exemption, and credits, so as to provide that the amount of the federal work opportunity credit claimed by a taxpayer shall also be allowed as a tax credit against state income taxes; to provide for conditions, eligibility, limitations, and recaptures; to provide for definitions; to provide for rules and regulations; to provide for automatic repeal; 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 519	Georgia HB 519 (2025_26)	bill	REVENUE AND TAXATION	enacted	Danny Mathis Matt Reeves Noel Williams, Jr. Ron Stephens	3	15	3	2025-02-19	2026-05-12	openstates	ocd-bill/9da3df98-45ae-496d-afc9-3955bf5db565	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	876b7e689a2feb25f22d1c94b5bb8179a3bcb051e15fbb7d24cf708ee4affcd9	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 519 (2025_26) — Revenue and taxation; amount of federal work opportunity credit claimed by a taxpayer shall also be allowed as a tax credit; provide

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 imposition, rate, computation, exemption, and credits, so as to provide that the amount of the federal work opportunity credit claimed by a taxpayer shall also be allowed as a tax credit against state income taxes; to provide for conditions, eligibility, limitations, and recaptures; to provide for definitions; to provide for rules and regulations; to provide for automatic repeal; 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. Fiscal Note (committee substitute) — source
2. HB 519/AP* (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 62 0093/a (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate Vote #805 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 47–1 (pass) · upper
• Senate Vote #800 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 32–19 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #551 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 158–14 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Danny Mathis — primary (person)
• Matt Reeves — primary (person)
• Noel Williams, Jr. — primary (person)
• Ron Stephens — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-19 House Hopper introduction
• 2025-02-20 House First Readers reading-1
• 2025-02-21 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
• 2026-03-12 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-03-16 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2026-03-25 Senate Engrossed passage
• 2026-03-25 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2026-03-25 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2026-04-06 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2026-05-12 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2026-05-12 Veto V3 executive-veto

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9da3df98-45ae-496d-afc9-3955bf5db565. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).