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GA SR56

Resolution

Status

Passed

2/19/2025

Primary Sponsor

Sam Watson

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Origin

Senate

2025-2026 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Proposes a constitutional amendment to remove the current $18,000 cap on the Homeowner's Incentive Adjustment, allowing benefits up to the taxpayer's full ad valorem property tax liability on their homestead

  • Authorizes the General Assembly to allow local governments and local school systems to establish their own local grant programs and appropriate local tax funds for homeowner's incentive adjustments

  • Permits local school systems to impose a 1% local option sales tax for up to five years to offset reductions in homestead property tax relief

  • Requires voter ratification of the amendment, with the ballot question asking whether to authorize local grants, remove benefit caps, and allow sales taxes to offset property tax relief

Legislative Description

Bona Fide Conservation Use Property; maximum acreage to qualify for assessment and taxation; increase -CA

Last Action

House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute

3/31/2026

Committee Referrals

Ways and Means2/20/2025
Finance1/29/2025

Full Bill Text

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