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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "Income tax; credit for establishing or relocating quality jobs; revise provisions"
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description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 7 of Title 48 of the O.C.G.A., relating to imposition, rate, computation, and exemptions from state income tax, so as to revise the provisions relating to the credit for establishing or relocating quality jobs; to amend Code Section 48-8-3 of the O.C.G.A., relating to exemptions from state sales and use taxes, so as to provide a state sales tax exemption for sales of tickets, fees, or charges of admission to certain facilities that provide certain arts and education programming; to provide a state and local sales tax exemption for sales of tangible personal property used for or in the renovation or expansion of certain theaters; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date and applicability; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
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legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
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session: "2017_18"
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identifier: "HB 265"
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citation: "Georgia HB 265 (2017_18)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Chuck Efstration", "Paul Battles", "Ron Stephens", "Terry Rogers", "Trey Kelley", "Trey Rhodes"]
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version_count: 0
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action_count: 17
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vote_count: 1
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first_action: "2017-02-07"
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last_action: "2017-04-25"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3e06df03-8ab8-4aa5-a6dc-ebf6185d0305"
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source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
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source_hash: "76c014d9c2ea17707d9f8e6b6ff435b7e1b0726e53bbb1c96d4ab6cb97a11534"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ga"]
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---
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# Georgia HB 265 (2017_18) — Income tax; credit for establishing or relocating quality jobs; revise provisions
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A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 7 of Title 48 of the O.C.G.A., relating to imposition, rate, computation, and exemptions from state income tax, so as to revise the provisions relating to the credit for establishing or relocating quality jobs; to amend Code Section 48-8-3 of the O.C.G.A., relating to exemptions from state sales and use taxes, so as to provide a state sales tax exemption for sales of tickets, fees, or charges of admission to certain facilities that provide certain arts and education programming; to provide a state and local sales tax exemption for sales of tangible personal property used for or in the renovation or expansion of certain theaters; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date and applicability; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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## Votes
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- PASSAGE — **155–4** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Chuck Efstration — primary (person)
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- Paul Battles — primary (person)
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- Ron Stephens — primary (person)
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- Terry Rogers — primary (person)
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- Trey Kelley — primary (person)
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- Trey Rhodes — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2017-02-07** House Hopper
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- **2017-02-08** House First Readers `reading-1`
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- **2017-02-09** House Second Readers `reading-2`
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- **2017-02-21** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2017-02-27** House Third Readers `reading-3`
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- **2017-02-27** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
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- **2017-02-28** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
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- **2017-03-09** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2017-03-10** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
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- **2017-03-14** Senate Engrossed `passage`
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- **2017-03-14** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
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- **2017-03-14** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
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- **2017-03-22** House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
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- **2017-04-03** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
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- **2017-04-25** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
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- **2017-04-25** Act 23 `executive-signature`
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- **2017-04-25** Effective Date
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3e06df03-8ab8-4aa5-a6dc-ebf6185d0305`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
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