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House approves local calendar bills; two homestead-exemption measures sent back to committee
Summary
The Georgia House approved its local calendar without House Bills 51 and 52; the two bills were removed from the local calendar and recommitted to the Committee on Intergovernmental Coordination.
The Georgia House approved the local calendar on Wednesday by recorded vote, clearing a long list of city- and county-specific measures while removing two homestead-exemption bills for further committee consideration.
Chairlady Kent moved to remove House Bills 51 and 52 from the local calendar and recommit them to the Committee on Intergovernmental Coordination; the motion carried without objection. The clerk read the remaining local-calendar captions for dozens of measures affecting counties and municipalities across the state.
The House then voted on the local calendar as presented, excluding HB51 and HB52. On the passage of the local calendar without HB51 and HB52, the yeas were 165 and the nays were 0, the transcript records. The clerk announced that the bills had received the requisite constitutional majority and were therefore passed.
Votes at a glance (local calendar items removed and passed): - Removed and recommitted: HB51 (by Representative Gaines; Athens-Clarke County) — recommitted to Intergovernmental Coordination Committee. - Removed and recommitted: HB52 (by Representative Gaines; Athens-Clarke County) — recommitted to Intergovernmental Coordination Committee. - Passed (selected captions as read on the floor): HB16 (Rose; Greene County); HB19 (Washburn; Jasper County); HB34 (Kelly; City of Cedartown); HB37 (Miles; Augusta-Richmond County); HB38 (Smith; City of Newnan); HB39 (Gaines; Jackson County); HB40 (Jasper; Pickens County); HB45 (Ridley; Cherokee County); HB47 (Cummings; Cobb County); HB49 (Green; Quitman/Randolph/Stewart counties); HB55 (Taylor; City of Thomasville); HB56 (LaHood; Brooks County); HB57, HB58 (Cummings; Cobb County); HB69 (Gamble; Cartersville); HB11, HB13, HB14, HB15 (LaHood; Lowndes County), among many others listed on the local calendar.
Why it matters: Local calendar bills are frequently housekeeping or locally focused measures, including homestead exemptions, special city charters and other municipal matters; they typically require a two-thirds recorded roll call for passage when certain local tax or exemption matters are involved.
Next steps: The passed local bills will be transmitted per legislative procedure. HB51 and HB52 will return to the Intergovernmental Coordination Committee for further consideration.
