republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2025-26/hb-136.md

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Bill	Income tax; contributions to foster child support organizations; expand tax credit	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 7 of Title 48 of the O.C.G.A., relating to income taxes, so as to expand the tax credit for contributions to foster child support organizations to allow such organizations to include as qualified expenditures wraparound and mentorship services for justice involved youth; to expand the wraparound services that are qualified expenditures; to provide for such tax credits to be used by certain insurance companies against insurance premium tax liability; to provide for conditions and limitations; to provide for reporting and public website requirements; to provide for certifying and decertifying qualified organizations; to provide for information sharing and limitations thereof; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date and applicability; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2025_26	HB 136	Georgia HB 136 (2025_26)	bill	MINORS REVENUE AND TAXATION	enacted	Brent Cox Brian Prince Mark Newton Shaw Blackmon Sheila Jones Trey Rhodes	7	18	5	2025-01-27	2025-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/b9050d14-30aa-430f-b4ef-ce13526c1451	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	3edd1d69221498d7adcc6970551d7d1be41f863730f52d391236c9ddc2fda454	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 136 (2025_26) — Income tax; contributions to foster child support organizations; expand tax credit

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 7 of Title 48 of the O.C.G.A., relating to income taxes, so as to expand the tax credit for contributions to foster child support organizations to allow such organizations to include as qualified expenditures wraparound and mentorship services for justice involved youth; to expand the wraparound services that are qualified expenditures; to provide for such tax credits to be used by certain insurance companies against insurance premium tax liability; to provide for conditions and limitations; to provide for reporting and public website requirements; to provide for certifying and decertifying qualified organizations; to provide for information sharing and limitations thereof; 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.

1. Floor Amendment AM 50 0114 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB 136/AP* (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 50 1004/a (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 50 1130S Fiscal Note (committee substitute) — source
5. LC 50 1130S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
6. LC 50 1130S/hs (committee substitute) — source
7. Sen Ctee Sub LC 50 1259S (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate Vote #449 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 54–0 (pass) · upper
• Senate Vote #320 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 50–0 (pass) · upper
• Senate Vote #314 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 31–21 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #397 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 163–4 (pass) · lower
• House Vote #75 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 170–2 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Brent Cox — primary (person)
• Brian Prince — primary (person)
• Mark Newton — primary (person)
• Shaw Blackmon — primary (person)
• Sheila Jones — primary (person)
• Trey Rhodes — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-27 House Hopper introduction
• 2025-01-28 House First Readers reading-1
• 2025-01-29 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2025-02-19 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-02-24 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2025-02-24 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2025-02-26 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2025-03-27 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-27 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2025-03-28 Senate Engrossed passage
• 2025-03-28 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2025-03-28 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2025-04-02 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub As Amended
• 2025-04-04 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2025-04-10 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-05-13 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2025-05-13 Act 182 executive-signature
• 2025-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b9050d14-30aa-430f-b4ef-ce13526c1451. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).