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type: "Bill"
title: "State income tax; angel investor tax credit; extend"
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 tax, so as to extend the angel investor tax credit; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2015_16"
identifier: "HB 237"
citation: "Georgia HB 237 (2015_16)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bruce Williamson", "Charles Martin", "Chuck Williams", "Mark Hamilton", "Matt Ramsey", "Mike Dudgeon"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 16
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2015-02-04"
last_action: "2015-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/eb0ab687-9490-44bd-814d-1e876cd2cb5c"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "600dc30e31dd5f476234eddc58db0abf78b0040c79d7372d8190dead1609bd39"
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 237 (2015_16) — State income tax; angel investor tax credit; extend
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 tax, so as to extend the angel investor tax credit; 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. **Floor Amendment AM 34 0678** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/150818.pdf)
2. **HB 237/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/153405.pdf)
3. **HB 237/CSFA** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/150832.pdf)
4. **LC 34 4444/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/146952.pdf)
5. **LC 34 4509S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/149564.pdf)
## Votes
- PASSAGE — **1700** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Bruce Williamson — primary (person)
- Charles Martin — primary (person)
- Chuck Williams — primary (person)
- Mark Hamilton — primary (person)
- Matt Ramsey — primary (person)
- Mike Dudgeon — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2015-02-04** House Hopper
- **2015-02-09** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2015-02-10** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2015-03-02** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-03-11** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2015-03-11** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2015-03-13** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-26** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-03-26** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2015-03-27** Senate Engrossed `passage`
- **2015-03-27** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2015-03-27** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2015-04-06** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2015-05-05** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2015-05-05** Act 66 `executive-signature`
- **2015-07-01** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/eb0ab687-9490-44bd-814d-1e876cd2cb5c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).