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Votes at a glance: Georgia House passes multiple bills including generator tax credit, housing bond cap increase, dietetics update
Summary
During the morning session the Georgia House passed a slate of bills: generator tax-credit for disaster preparedness, an increase to mortgage revenue bond limits for the Georgia Housing and Finance Authority, updates to dietetics licensing, and several tax measures and housekeeping code revisions. Vote tallies are listed below.
The Georgia House of Representatives approved a package of bills during its morning floor session. Most measures passed on voice or recorded votes; below are concise summaries and recorded tallies.
Votes at a glance
- House Bill 532 (Deloach): Amends O.C.G.A. to revise calculations related to an annual grant for counties. Committee on Ways and Means recommended passage; House vote recorded as yeas 168, nays 0. Outcome: passed.
- House Bill 52 (Rice): Clarifies homestead-exemption filing for remarried spouses and minor children of a deceased disabled veteran so the exemption "travels" with the survivor; sponsor said it clarifies existing practice rather than extending an exemption. Recorded vote: yeas 170, nays 5. Outcome: passed.
- House Bill 425 (Burchett): Creates a tax credit to encourage emergency generators and transfer switches at convenience stores and care facilities for disaster preparedness. Sponsor described a $25,000 per-store cap and a $5,000,000 aggregate cap, and said the credit applies through Dec. 31, 2026. Recorded vote: yeas 171, nays 2. Outcome: passed.
- House Bill 112 (McDonald): One-time tax-credit payment for filers of 2023 and 2024 tax returns. Presenter described a $500 payment for joint filers, $375 for head-of-household filers and $250 for single filers. Recorded vote: yeas 175, nays 0. Outcome: passed.
- House Bill 159 (Crow): Doubles the annual mortgage revenue bond cap available to the Georgia Housing and Finance Authority from $3 billion to $6 billion to support the Georgia Dream home-financing program for low- and moderate-income, first-time borrowers. Recorded vote: yeas 162, nays 10. Outcome: passed.
- House Bill 185 (presented on the floor): Updates the Dietetics Practice Act to clarify licensing standards, distinguish general nutrition advice from medical nutrition therapy, and permit participation in an interstate compact for licensed dietitians. Recorded vote: yeas 171, nays 2. Outcome: passed.
- House Bill 485 (Yerder): Repeals a set of statutory provisions enacted prior to 2013 that were contingent on funding and remain unfunded; described as part of code modernization. Recorded vote: yeas 175, nays 0. Outcome: passed.
Procedural notes: Committee reports were read into the record for multiple standing committees before floor action on each bill. Several bills referenced the Official Code of Georgia Annotated in their captions. Where recorded roll-call tallies were shown on the House machine, those counts are reproduced here from the transcript.
