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GA SR56
Resolution
Status
2/19/2025
Primary Sponsor
Sam Watson
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AI Summary
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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
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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
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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
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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