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title: Sen Floor Amend 1 AM 47 0159 to HB 155
collection: amendment
id: amendment:2025-2026/hb155/239186
cite_as: HB 155, Sen Floor Amend 1 AM 47 0159
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date: 2026-09-25
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# Sen Floor Amend 1 AM 47 0159 to HB 155

MOOT
Senator Beach of the 21st offered the following amendment #1:
Amend the amendment to the Senate substitute to HB 155 (AM 47 0153) by inserting after
line 2 the following:
By inserting after "arbitrators;" on line 4 the following:
to amend Chapter 62 of Title 36 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to
development authorities, so as to provide that county development authorities for certain
counties shall not operate within certain municipalities; to provide for a definition;
By inserting after line 195 the following:
SECTION 1-3.
Chapter 62 of Title 36 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to development
authorities, is amended by adding a new Code section to read as follows:
<ins>"36-62-4.1.
(a) As used in this Code section, the term 'massively municipalized county' means any
county without a consolidated or unified government in which the corporate limits of two
or more municipalities cover 95 percent or more of the land area of the county.
(b) No county development authority for a massively municipalized county shall purchase
or accept title to any real or personal property in connection with a property tax incentive
project within the parts of such county that are within the corporate limits of any
municipality that is located north of the northernmost corporate limit of the municipality
in which the county site of such county is located if the governing authority of the
municipality in which such property is located has adopted a resolution to limit such
development authority from operating within such municipality.
</ins>
<ins>(c) The provisions of this Code section shall not apply to any project approved by a
development authority prior to January 1, 2026, nor shall any amendments, refinancing,
renewals, or the transfer of any property related to such prior projects be affected by this
Code section."
</ins>