republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2025-26/hb-539.md

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Bill	Gwinnett County; school district ad valorem tax; increase homestead exemption	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act to provide a homestead exemption of $4,000.00 from all county school district ad valorem taxation, except taxes levied to retire bonded indebtedness, which applies to the homestead of each resident of the Gwinnett County school district actually occupied by the owner as a residence and homestead, approved March 24, 1988 (Ga. L. 1988, p. 4199), so as to increase said homestead exemption to $10,000.00; to provide for compliance with constitutional requirements; to provide for a referendum, effective dates, and automatic repeal; to provide for mandatory execution of election and judicial remedies regarding failure to comply; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2025_26	HB 539	Georgia HB 539 (2025_26)	bill		enacted	Chuck Efstration Dewey McClain Gabe Okoye Jasmine Clark Matt Reeves Segun Adeyina	3	13	2	2025-02-20	2025-05-13	openstates	ocd-bill/80883bd6-cbe6-4eae-a174-7c4128e763d0	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	81ed7c7c3d78831ca71edb99d116dddef2b05d7e61995b27d5d3de77aa318a0c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 539 (2025_26) — Gwinnett County; school district ad valorem tax; increase homestead exemption

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act to provide a homestead exemption of $4,000.00 from all county school district ad valorem taxation, except taxes levied to retire bonded indebtedness, which applies to the homestead of each resident of the Gwinnett County school district actually occupied by the owner as a residence and homestead, approved March 24, 1988 (Ga. L. 1988, p. 4199), so as to increase said homestead exemption to $10,000.00; to provide for compliance with constitutional requirements; to provide for a referendum, effective dates, and automatic repeal; to provide for mandatory execution of election and judicial remedies regarding failure to comply; 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 539/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 47 3247/a (committee substitute) — source
3. Local Ad (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate Vote #265 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 53–0 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #148 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 172–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Chuck Efstration — primary (person)
• Dewey McClain — primary (person)
• Gabe Okoye — primary (person)
• Jasmine Clark — primary (person)
• Matt Reeves — primary (person)
• Segun Adeyina — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-20 House Hopper introduction
• 2025-02-21 House First Readers reading-1
• 2025-02-24 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2025-03-04 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-04 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2025-03-04 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2025-03-06 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2025-03-21 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-21 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2025-04-07 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-05-13 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2025-05-13 Act 201 executive-signature
• 2025-05-13 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/80883bd6-cbe6-4eae-a174-7c4128e763d0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).