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title: Sen floor amend 2 AM 47 0160 to HB 155
collection: amendment
id: amendment:2025-2026/hb155/239194
cite_as: HB 155, Sen floor amend 2 AM 47 0160
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date: 2026-09-25
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# Sen floor amend 2 AM 47 0160 to HB 155

ADOPTED
Senator Beach of the 21st offered the following amendment #2:
Amend the amendment to the Senate substitute to HB 155 (AM 47 0153) by replacing lines
1 through 18 with the following:
Amend the Senate substitute to HB 155 (HB 155/SCSFA) 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
</ins>
<ins>of the municipality in which such property is located has adopted a resolution to limit
such development authority from operating within such municipality.
(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> By replacing lines 424 through 437 with the following:
"(c) If, at the time annexation procedures are initiated, the entire area to be annexed is
owned by the municipal governing authority to which the area is to be annexed and if the
annexation of municipally owned property is approved by resolution of the governing
authority of the county wherein the property is located, then the term 'contiguous area'
shall mean any area which, at the time annexation procedures are initiated, abuts directly
on the municipal boundary or which would directly abut on the municipal boundary if it
were not otherwise separated from the municipal boundary by lands owned by the
municipal corporation or some other political subdivision, by lands owned by this state,
or by the definite width or by the length of:
(1) Any street or street right of way;
(2) Any creek or river; or
(3) Any right of way of a railroad or other public service corporation
which divides the municipal boundary and any area proposed to be annexed; <ins>provided,
however, that an annexation by the length of paragraphs (1) through (3) of this subsection
shall also be approved by a majority of the qualified voters of such county voting on a
referendum to approve such annexation."
</ins>