2025-2026 Regular Session

SB43

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

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 48-5-7.4 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to preferential assessment for bona fide conservation use property and bona fide residential transitional property, so as to increase the maximum acreage to qualify for assessment and taxation as a bona fide conservation use property; to provide for related matters; to provide for a contingent effective date and automatic repeal; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

Current disposition: Pending: Senate Finance
Last status date: January 29, 2025
Last status update: Senate Read and Referred
Pending committee: Finance
Author: Carden Summers
Co-sponsors: Matt Brass Russ Goodman Sam Watson Lee Anderson Steve Gooch Bo Hatchett Billy Hickman Ricky Williams Frank Ginn Blake Tillery Jason Anavitarte Randy Robertson Ben Watson John Albers Max BurnsJohn KennedyDrew Echols Shawn Still Timothy Bearden

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Committee referrals

January 29, 2025 · Senate

Finance

Instrument history

This is the complete recorded action history in the current source package. Highlighted entries are marked as significant by the source. A roll-call link appears only when a vote-like action has one unambiguous same-day chamber vote.

January 29, 2025
Senate Senate Read and Referred
January 28, 2025
Senate Senate Hopper

Source provenance

LegiScan bill ID: 1945154
LegiScan session ID: 2167
Source file: var/states/georgia/source/legiscan/2167-841ad2a0e705/bill/SB43.json
Package observed: 2026-07-17T02:17:01+00:00