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Senate approves constitutional amendment question, bills to raise CUVA acreage cap from 2,000 to 4,000
Summary
The Georgia Senate approved a proposed constitutional amendment and companion bills to raise the acreage cap for conservation-use preferential tax assessment (CUVA) from 2,000 to 4,000 acres and to clarify leased-land rules for family farm entities; votes were 51-1 and 50-1 on final measures.
ATLANTA — The Georgia Senate on Feb. 19 voted to send voters a constitutional amendment and passed two companion bills that would change the state's conservation-use property rules.
Senate Resolution 56, which proposes amending the Georgia Constitution to raise the maximum acreage eligible for preferential assessment and taxation as bona fide conservation-use property from 2,000 acres to 4,000 acres, was adopted by roll call (51-1). Senators also passed Senate Bill 45, the implementing statutory change, and Senate Bill 59, which removes a limitation on leased property for certain family farm entities; those measures passed by recorded votes (SB45: 51-1; SB59: 50-1).
The measures respond to a farmland study committee's recommendations…
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