February 5, 2014
HB 855 Service Delivery Strategy: Revised Procedures
This bill would require that service delivery strategy (SDS) agreements be executed by January 1st of the third year following the decennial...
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February 5, 2014
HB 694 Georgia Rail Passenger and High Speed Rail Facilities Authority Law
HB 694 This law will change the Georgia Rail Passenger Authority Law to the Georgia Rail Passenger and High Speed Rail Facilities Authority Law. It also changes the definition of what would be...
February 5, 2014
HB 308 Revise Historic Buildings Tax Credit
Creates a new cap of $5 million for certified rehabilitations completed after July 1, 2013 plus...
January 17, 2014
HB 1036 House Study Committee on Townships
This resolution creates a study committee on townships in response to annexation requests and the cityhood...
January 17, 2014
HB 128 The Georgia Downtown Renaissance Act
This bill would encourage downtown investments in commercial and residential property through state income tax...
January 17, 2014
HB 265 MARTA – Repeal of Suspension of Restrictions on Expenditures
This legislation would repeal the current suspension on the restrictions on the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority's (MARTA) expenditures for capital outlay and operations should House Bill...
January 17, 2014
SB 99 Fractional SPLOSTs
Senate Bill 99 would change the Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax (SPLOST) law to authorize a fractional SPLOST or multiple fractional SPLOSTs within a special district so long as the combined...
January 17, 2014
SB 287 Use of SPLOST Funds for Transportation System M&O
This bill expands the purposes for which SPLOST funds can be used to include maintenance and operations of a metropolitan area public transportation system that is overseen by a governing...
January 17, 2014
HB 173 SPLOST: Authorization for Repairs of Capital Outlay Projects
House Bill 173 would specifically authorize SPLOST revenues of up to 15 percent of that which is collected to be spent on repairs of capital outlay projects. An estimate of these costs would be...