republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2025-26/hb-90.md

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Bill	Revenue and taxation; increase maximum acreage to qualify for assessment and taxation as a bona fide conservation use property	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 48-5-7.4 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to preferential assessment for bona fide conservation use property and bona fide residential transitional property, so as to increase the maximum acreage to qualify for assessment and taxation as a bona fide conservation use property; to provide for related matters; to provide for a contingent effective date and automatic repeal; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2025_26	HB 90	Georgia HB 90 (2025_26)	bill	CONSERVATION AND NATURAL RESOURCES PROPERTY REVENUE AND TAXATION	enacted	Chuck Efstration Debbie Buckner Leesa Hagan Robert Dickey	3	16	3	2025-01-16	2027-01-01	openstates	ocd-bill/f7d287fe-6135-463a-8f36-6358b88c94ec	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	7c758d9cce6df567d2e69d98916d57a4557e606cbd6a4c53d7b1989f09064831	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 90 (2025_26) — Revenue and taxation; increase maximum acreage to qualify for assessment and taxation as a bona fide conservation use property

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 48-5-7.4 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to preferential assessment for bona fide conservation use property and bona fide residential transitional property, so as to increase the maximum acreage to qualify for assessment and taxation as a bona fide conservation use property; to provide for related matters; to provide for a contingent effective date and automatic repeal; 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 90/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 44 2885/a (committee substitute) — source
3. Local Government Fiscal Note (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• House Vote #56 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 111–62 (pass) · lower
• Senate Vote #239 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 47–3 (pass) · upper
• Senate Vote #236 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 29–23 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Chuck Efstration — primary (person)
• Debbie Buckner — primary (person)
• Leesa Hagan — primary (person)
• Robert Dickey — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-16 House Hopper introduction
• 2025-01-17 House First Readers reading-1
• 2025-01-27 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2025-02-12 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-02-20 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2025-02-20 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2025-02-21 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2025-03-11 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-13 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2025-03-18 Senate Engrossed passage
• 2025-03-18 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2025-03-18 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2025-04-07 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-05-09 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2025-05-09 Act 78 executive-signature
• 2027-01-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f7d287fe-6135-463a-8f36-6358b88c94ec. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).