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type: "Bill"
title: "Income tax credit; interactive entertainment companies; change certain provisions"
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 imposition, rate, computation, and exemptions from state income taxes, so as to change certain provisions regarding the income tax credit for interactive entertainment companies; to remove the sunset on such exemptions; to add an exemption for certain prereleased products; to provide for a new state income tax credit for qualified postproduction expenditures of postproduction companies; to provide for procedures, conditions, and limitations; to provide for definitions; to provide for related matters; 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 199"
citation: "Georgia HB 199 (2017_18)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chuck Efstration", "Jay Powell", "Terry Rogers", "Trey Rhodes"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 18
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2017-01-31"
last_action: "2017-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/76706a45-7f85-46cc-bb2b-b2242b68561c"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "8e4aea868b52de470796fd1214c16721fbc6324755a7d5f4b7e020d3cb04e501"
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 199 (2017_18) — Income tax credit; interactive entertainment companies; change certain provisions
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, and exemptions from state income taxes, so as to change certain provisions regarding the income tax credit for interactive entertainment companies; to remove the sunset on such exemptions; to add an exemption for certain prereleased products; to provide for a new state income tax credit for qualified postproduction expenditures of postproduction companies; to provide for procedures, conditions, and limitations; to provide for definitions; 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.
## Votes
- PASSAGE — **1583** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Chuck Efstration — primary (person)
- Jay Powell — primary (person)
- Terry Rogers — primary (person)
- Trey Rhodes — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-01-31** House Hopper
- **2017-02-01** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2017-02-02** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2017-02-21** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-24** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2017-02-24** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2017-02-27** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-16** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-20** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2017-03-22** Senate Engrossed `passage`
- **2017-03-22** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2017-03-22** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2017-03-24** House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub As Amended
- **2017-03-30** Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
- **2017-04-07** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2017-04-25** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2017-04-25** Act 26 `executive-signature`
- **2017-07-01** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/76706a45-7f85-46cc-bb2b-b2242b68561c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).