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Bill	Paulding County; School District; residents 65 years or older shall be exempt from ad valorem taxation for education purposes	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend a former local constitutional amendment, (Ga. L. 1982, p. 2511), which former local constitutional amendment was continued in effect as statutory law pursuant to Article VII, Section II, Paragraph IV of the Constitution of Georgia and which provided that the homestead of each resident of the Paulding County School District who is 65 years of age or over, regardless of income, shall be exempt from ad valorem taxation for educational purposes levied by or on behalf of the Paulding County School District, including ad valorem taxation to pay interest on or to retire school bond indebtedness, in the amount of 50 percent of the assessed value of such homestead minus any applicable exemptions otherwise provided by this Constitution on such homestead for educational purposes, to provide for compliance with constitutional requirements; to provide for a referendum, effective dates, and automatic repeal; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2021_22	HB 1507	Georgia HB 1507 (2021_22)	bill		enacted	Joseph Gullett Kimberly Alexander Martin Momtahan Micah Gravley Trey Kelley Tyler Paul Smith	3	14	1	2022-03-03	2022-04-25	openstates	ocd-bill/f8a61c7c-50ec-4206-9f32-e9d75c731668	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	8300e1b26b561082d504018759b930820d8c936bba9dfab77ed2f77cd629a87d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 1507 (2021_22) — Paulding County; School District; residents 65 years or older shall be exempt from ad valorem taxation for education purposes

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend a former local constitutional amendment, (Ga. L. 1982, p. 2511), which former local constitutional amendment was continued in effect as statutory law pursuant to Article VII, Section II, Paragraph IV of the Constitution of Georgia and which provided that the homestead of each resident of the Paulding County School District who is 65 years of age or over, regardless of income, shall be exempt from ad valorem taxation for educational purposes levied by or on behalf of the Paulding County School District, including ad valorem taxation to pay interest on or to retire school bond indebtedness, in the amount of 50 percent of the assessed value of such homestead minus any applicable exemptions otherwise provided by this Constitution on such homestead for educational purposes, to provide for compliance with constitutional requirements; to provide for a referendum, effective dates, 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 1507/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 47 1205/a (committee substitute) — source
3. Local Ad (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Local Calendar — 125–38 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Joseph Gullett — primary (person)
• Kimberly Alexander — primary (person)
• Martin Momtahan — primary (person)
• Micah Gravley — primary (person)
• Trey Kelley — primary (person)
• Tyler Paul Smith — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-03-03 House Hopper
• 2022-03-04 House First Readers reading-1
• 2022-03-08 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2022-03-23 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-03-23 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2022-03-23 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2022-03-25 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2022-03-28 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-03-28 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2022-03-28 Senate Transmitted House
• 2022-04-06 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2022-04-25 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2022-04-25 Act 671 executive-signature
• 2022-04-25 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f8a61c7c-50ec-4206-9f32-e9d75c731668. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).