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type: "Bill"
title: "Income tax credit; expenditures on the maintenance of a railroad track owned or leased by a Class III railroad; create"
description: "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 the imposition, rate, and computation of and exemptions from state income taxes, so as to create an income tax credit for expenditures on the maintenance of railroad track owned or leased by a Class III railroad; to provide for rules and regulations related to such income tax credit; to provide for certain conditions and limitations; to require annual reporting of certain statistics related to such credit; to provide for definitions; to provide for an effective date and applicability; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2017_18"
identifier: "HB 735"
citation: "Georgia HB 735 (2017_18)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jay Powell", "Kevin Tanner", "Mack Jackson", "Patty Bentley", "Robert Dickey", "Terry England"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 19
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2018-01-24"
last_action: "2018-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bf823f33-542b-4123-b21c-bc71762512ed"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "2defead7903ea41c5f6853f6e6a820fb95e6cec4eabc72a4b6d5159e5d1333e6"
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 735 (2017_18) — Income tax credit; expenditures on the maintenance of a railroad track owned or leased by a Class III railroad; create
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 the imposition, rate, and computation of and exemptions from state income taxes, so as to create an income tax credit for expenditures on the maintenance of railroad track owned or leased by a Class III railroad; to provide for rules and regulations related to such income tax credit; to provide for certain conditions and limitations; to require annual reporting of certain statistics related to such credit; to provide for definitions; 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.
## Votes
- PASSAGE — **1722** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Jay Powell — primary (person)
- Kevin Tanner — primary (person)
- Mack Jackson — primary (person)
- Patty Bentley — primary (person)
- Robert Dickey — primary (person)
- Terry England — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-01-24** House Hopper
- **2018-01-25** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2018-01-29** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2018-02-08** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-21** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2018-02-21** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2018-02-22** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-19** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-19** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2018-03-21** Senate Recommitted `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-21** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-23** Senate Engrossed `passage`
- **2018-03-23** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2018-03-23** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2018-03-27** House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
- **2018-04-03** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2018-05-08** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-08** Act 476 `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-08** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bf823f33-542b-4123-b21c-bc71762512ed`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).