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title: SR 52. Development Impact Fees for Educational Purposes -CA
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date: 2025-01-29
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bill_number: SR 52
session: 2025-2026 Regular Session
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chamber: Senate
bill_type: resolution
status_date: 2025-01-28
last_action: Senate Read and Referred
sponsors:
- Greg Dolezal
- Shawn Still
- Jason Anavitarte
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- school funding
- development impact fees
- constitutional amendment
- property development
- education facilities
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# SR 52. Development Impact Fees for Educational Purposes -CA
## Text
Senate Resolution 52
By: Senators Dolezal of the 27th, Still of the 48th and Anavitarte of the 31st
A RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution so as to provide that the General Assembly may
by general law authorize local boards of education to impose, levy, and collect development
impact fees and use the proceeds to pay for a share of the cost of additional educational
facilities; to provide for the submission of this amendment for ratification or rejection; and
for other purposes.
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:
SECTION 1.
Article VIII, Section VI of the Constitution is amended by adding a new Paragraph to read
as follows:
"Paragraph V. Development impact fees for educational purposes. The General
Assembly is authorized to provide by general law that each local board of education may
by resolution impose, levy, and collect development impact fees within any area of its local
school system which is experiencing new growth and development. A county or
municipality that has received a local board of education resolution imposing a
development impact fee shall collect such fee as a condition of development approval by
such county or municipality. Proceeds of any development impact fee imposed pursuant
to this Paragraph shall be used to pay for a share of the cost of additional educational
facilities to serve new growth and development in the same area in which such fee is
imposed."
SECTION 2.
The above proposed amendment to the Constitution shall be published and submitted as
provided in Article X, Section I, Paragraph II of the Constitution. The ballot submitting the
above proposed amendment shall have written or printed thereon the following:
"( ) YES Shall the Constitution of Georgia be amended so as to provide that the
General Assembly may by general law authorize local boards of education
( ) NO to impose, levy, and collect development impact fees and use the proceeds
to pay for a share of the cost of additional educational facilities?"
All persons desiring to vote in favor of ratifying the proposed amendment shall vote "Yes."
All persons desiring to vote against ratifying the proposed amendment shall vote "No." If
such amendment shall be ratified as provided in said Paragraph of the Constitution, it shall
become a part of the Constitution of this state.
## Summaries written by Georgia Commons
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A Georgia Senate resolution would ask voters to amend the state constitution to let local school boards charge developers impact fees to help pay for new schools in growing areas.
### Plain-language summary
Right now, Georgia's constitution does not give local boards of education the power to charge development impact fees, which are one-time charges on new construction meant to help pay for the extra public facilities that growth requires. This resolution proposes adding a new paragraph to the constitution allowing the General Assembly to pass a general law letting local school boards impose, levy, and collect these fees in areas of their district experiencing new growth.
Under the proposal, a county or city that receives a fee resolution from a local school board would have to collect the fee as a condition of approving new development. The money raised would have to be spent on additional educational facilities serving the same growing area where the fee was charged. Because this is a constitutional amendment, it must be approved by Georgia voters in a statewide referendum before it can take effect, and the resolution sets out the exact ballot question voters would see.
### What it does
- Proposes adding a new paragraph to Article VIII, Section VI of the Georgia Constitution allowing the General Assembly to authorize school impact fees by general law.
- Would let local boards of education impose, levy, and collect development impact fees in areas of their district seeing new growth and development.
- Requires counties and cities that receive a fee resolution from a school board to collect the fee as a condition of approving development.
- Requires that impact fee proceeds be spent only on additional educational facilities serving the same growing area where the fee was collected.
- Sends the proposed constitutional amendment to Georgia voters for ratification or rejection in a statewide referendum.
### Who it affects
Local boards of education, which would gain new fee-raising power; real estate developers and builders, who would pay the fees; county and municipal governments, which would have to collect the fees as part of development approval; and Georgia voters, who would decide the amendment's fate at the ballot box.
### Why it matters
If ratified, fast-growing Georgia school districts could tap a new funding source tied directly to new construction, potentially easing pressure on other tax revenue for building schools. Developers in those areas would face an added cost, and the change would take effect only if a majority of voters approve it.
### Key provisions
- Section 1 adds a new Paragraph V to Article VIII, Section VI of the Georgia Constitution authorizing the General Assembly to let local boards of education impose development impact fees by general law.
- The fees may only be imposed in areas of a local school system experiencing new growth and development.
- Counties and municipalities must collect a school board's imposed fee as a condition of approving development in that area.
- Fee proceeds must be used to pay for a share of the cost of additional educational facilities serving the same growth area.
- Section 2 sets the ballot question language voters will see and specifies the amendment becomes part of the constitution only if ratified.
## Status
- Status: Introduced (2025-01-28)
- Last action: Senate Read and Referred (2025-01-29)
- Sponsors: Greg Dolezal, Shawn Still, Jason Anavitarte
- Official page: https://www.legis.ga.gov/legislation/69558
> The history, votes, and amendments (95 characters) are at https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/sr52.md?full=1