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Senate hearing focuses on raising conservation‑use acreage cap for family farm entities; fiscal note pending
Summary
Senator Watson presented SB 45 (LC 442941) and SR 56 (LC 442940) to allow larger family farm entities to qualify for conservation‑use treatment without splitting ownership into multiple names.
Senator Watson presented SB 45 (LC 442941) and the related constitutional enabling resolution SR 56 (LC 442940), measures aimed at updating Georgia’s conservation‑use program to reflect modern family farming structures.
Watson told the committee the current law limits a single individual to a 2,000‑acre maximum for conservation use; when farms exceed that limit some owners transfer title into spouses’ or children’s names to retain the tax treatment. He said the…
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