Georgia House Bill 593

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)
Status: Passed on May 1 2023 - 100% progression
Action: 2023-05-01 - Effective Date 2023-05-01
Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [PDF]

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend a former local constitutional amendment (Ga. L. 1982, p. 2659), 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 each resident of the DeKalb County School District who is 62 years of age or over or who is disabled and whose gross income, together with the gross income of the spouse and all members of the family who reside at and occupy the homestead of such resident, does not exceed $16,000.00 per annum shall be granted an exemption from all DeKalb County School District ad valorem taxes on $20,000.00 of the value of the homestead owned and occupied by such resident, so as to increase the income cap on said homestead exemption to $40,000.00; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

DeKalb County; increase income cap on homestead exemption for citizens 62 years or older meeting certain income requirements; provisions

Rep. Becky Evans [D]	Rep. Karla Drenner [D]	Rep. Long Tran [D]	Rep. Billy Mitchell [D]
Rep. Karen Bennett [D]	Rep. Omari Crawford [D]

2023-03-29 - Senate - Local Consent Calendar: Senate Vote #338 (Y: 52 N: 0 NV: 3 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2023-03-23 - House - Local Calendar : House Vote #271 (Y: 162 N: 0 NV: 12 Abs: 4) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2023-05-01		Effective Date 2023-05-01
2023-05-01		Act 153
2023-05-01	House	House Date Signed by Governor
2023-04-03	House	House Sent to Governor
2023-03-29	Senate	Senate Passed/Adopted
2023-03-27	Senate	Senate Committee Favorably Reported
2023-03-23	Senate	Senate Read and Referred
2023-03-23	House	House Passed/Adopted
2023-03-23	House	House Third Readers
2023-03-23	House	House Committee Favorably Reported
2023-03-01	House	House Second Readers
2023-02-28	House	House First Readers
2023-02-27	House	House Hopper

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.legis.ga.gov/legislation/64853
Text	https://www.legis.ga.gov/api/legislation/document/20232024/216102
Text	https://www.legis.ga.gov/api/legislation/document/20232024/220021
Roll Call	https://www.legis.ga.gov/legislation/64853#21446
Roll Call	https://www.legis.ga.gov/legislation/64853#21629