2023 - 2024 Regular Session

Fiscal Notes 2024

Document Description
Tax credits for business enterprises; revise the military zones that qualify for designation as less developed areas.
Establishment of Georgia Agricultural Trust Fund, audits, and annual report, exempt the sale or use of diesel exhaust fluid.
Relating to income taxes, so as to revise the definition of "taxable nonresident"
Revise the maximum amount of contributions allowed per beneficiary of savings trust accounts for higher education expenses.
Small Business Protection Act of 2024
Exemptions from sales and use tax, suspend the issuance of new certificates of exemption for certain high-technology data center equipment during a certain period.
Increase the amount of the dependent exemption from state income tax; tax credit equal to 10% of federal EITC.
Income taxes, separate into a new Code section provisions related to tax credits for qualified interactive entertainment production companies.
Insurance and income taxes, so as to revise the low-income housing tax credits.
Quality Basic Education Act; provide for the placement of certificated professional personnel on the state minimum salary schedule.
Computation of taxable net income, so as to exclude certain grants for broadband investments.
relating to the Department of Public Health, so as to require that certain state government buildings and courthouses maintain and make accessible opioid antagonists.
relating to secondary and elementary education, so as to provide for funding requirements to apply to local education agencies; to provide for one superintendent for each state charter school.
Limit the carry-forward periods of certain income tax credits; provide for expirations of certain credits.
relating to income taxes, so as to expand the tax credit for contributions to foster child support organizations to allow such organizations to include as qualified expenditures wraparound and mentorship services for justice involved youth.
Increase a statewide ad valorem tax exemption for tangible personal property.
Create the Commission for the Blind and the Visually Impaired.
Revisions to income tax credits for film, gaming, video, or digital production.
Authorize local boards of education and other public school governing bodies to offer driver education as an elective course.
Create a voluntary loan program at certain financial institutions to assist veterans.
Expand the tax credit for contributions to foster child support organizations to allow such organizations to include as qualified expenditures wraparound and mentorship services for justice involved youth.
Revise the low-income housing tax credits.
Increase tax credits for qualified education donations for the purposes of awarding grants to public schools; remove requirement prioritizing low performing schools.
"Georgia Health and Economic Livelihood Partnership (HELP) Act"
Provide that certain state offices provide callers with the opportunity to complete an automated satisfaction survey
Income tax credit for certain geothermal machinery installations at residential dwellings
Match the rate of the tax imposed on corporations to that imposed on individual taxpayers; repeal the corporate net worth tax
Prohibit new issuances of tax credits for certain high-technology data center equipment; revise definition of quality job
Relating to alternative ad valorem tax on motor vehicles, so as to revise the definition of a rental motor vehicle with respect to the tax;
Relating to bona fide conservation use property, residential transitional property, application procedures, penalties for breach of covenant, classification on tax digest, and annual report, so as to remove a limitation on leased property.
"Save Our Home Acts"
Relating to tax exemption, so as to increase the amount of a statewide homestead exemption from certain ad valorem taxes.
Require certain schools and state government buildings, courthouses, and university units to maintain a supply of and make accessible opioid antagonists.
So as to provide for a victim centered address confidentiality program; to provide for application to such program; to provide for designation of confidential addresses.
Reduce the rate of state income tax to 5.39%
Increase the amount of the dependent exemption from state income tax
Relating to mental health, so as to provide for the establishment of a grant program for the purpose of creating emergency psychiatric assessment, treatment, and healing (EmPATH) units in hospitals.
Require certain schools and state government buildings, courthouses, and university units to maintain a supply of and make accessible opioid antagonists.
Relating to the imposition, rate, computation, exemptions, and credits from state income tax, so as to exclude from Georgia taxable net income retirement income received from certain military service.
Require automated external defibrillators in all schools, provide for establishment of emergency plan to address cardiac arrest.
Provide that capital outlay funds may be used for educational facilities for voluntary pre-kindergarten programs.
Require a contract between freelance workers & hiring party, provide for timely payment of freelance workers, etc.
Revise a state income tax credit based upon the federal qualified child & dependent care tax credit.
"Homeschool Extracurricular Activity Act"
Revise the tax credit for qualified caregiving expenses.

Fiscal Notes 2023

Document Description
“Cosmetology Licensure Compact” Authorizes state board of cosmetology and barbers to administer the compact in GA, conduct background checks, etc.
Revise definition of "qualified investment property" to include ground networks and fiber-optic cables, for the purposes of calculating the tax credit for existing manufacturing and telecommunications facilities.
Exclude from taxation net capital gains.
"Quality Basic Education Act," so as to add a program for students living in poverty to the table of quality basic education instructional programs with weights and student-teacher ratios.
"Georgia Affordable Housing Assistance Act"
Altering/ Modifying of Medicare reimbursement rates
Exception from sales and use taxes; relating to exemptions from sales and use taxes, so as to exempt sales of firearms, ammunition, gun safes, and related accessories during an 11-day period each year.
Relating to the State Defense Force, so as to require per diem pay of no less than $25.00 a day.
Changes to Quality Basic Education formula to reimburse public schools for school safety and violence reduction costs.
Fiscal Dedication Analysis: Dedicate funds from motor vehicle registration & license plate sales to Peace Officers and Firefighters pension funds.
Annually increasing the maximum age of eligibility for certain state funded special education services to 30 years of age for the 2032-2033 school year and thereafter.
Changes to Quality Basic Education Act to provide for grants by State Board of Education to local units of administration to support students living in poverty.
Revise provisions for the calculation and distribution of funds by State Board of Education to local units of administration for student transportation programs.
Increase the rate of the tax on consumable vapor products to up to 15%
Changes to Quality Basic Education to establish the Refugee and International Students Equalization program.
State Board of Cosmetology and Barbers; enter into and administer the interstate “Cosmetology Licensure Compact” in Georgia
Sales tax exemption for firearm safes and firearm safety devices.
Exempt materials used in construction of capital outlay projects for educational purposes from sales & use taxes
Exclude from taxation any net capital gains or losses derived from the sale or exchange of precious metals in the form of bullion or coins.
Relating to imposition, rate, computations, exemptions, and credit, so as to provide income tax reductions for members of State Defense Forces.
"Continuing Insulin Safety Net Act"; requires manufacturers to make up to two 90-day supplies of insulin available to eligible individuals through a patient assistance program
“Urgent Insulin Safety Net Program"; requires pharmacies to provide 30-day insulin supplies to eligible individuals for a copayment of up to $35.00
Safe Storage Tax Credit Act; provides for a tax credit for expenses incurred related to firearm safe storage devices
Provides for a tax credit for expenses incurred related to firearm safe storage devices
Lowers the starting age for compulsory education attendance from six years to five years of age
Limits the eligibility for the rural physician tax credit to persons qualifying as a rural physician
Revises a tax credit for certain medical preceptor rotations to include dentistry
Exempts the sales of property relating to renovations of certain aquariums and zoological institutions from sales tax
Related to the imposition, collection, and exemption on taxes related to new and pre-owned manufactured single-family structures
Revises provisions related to state income tax; terms relating to the Internal Revenue code
Excludes amounts attributable to level 1 freeport exemptions for purposes of calculating local five mill share
Amendment to the Constitution to provide for a reduction in the rate of the ad valorem tax assessment of timber at sale or harvest
Electing to pay income taxes at the entity level shall have no impact on the accounting or tax treatment of distributions for the electing pass-through entity
Taxation of the sale or use of certain digital products and services
Requires the DCH to include continuous glucose monitors as a pharmacy benefit for Medicaid recipients
Mental health, study of referrals to psychiatric treatment residential facilities, terminology relating to serious mental illness, and for other purposes
Provides for the qualification of members of performance review boards and for the secure storage of ballots
Revises provisions relating to health care sharing ministries
Treatment services under Medicaid to persons with HIV
Tax credit for employers that employ certified workforce-ready graduates
Requires supplemental, illness-specific insurance to certain first responders diagnosed with occupational PTSD
Required automated external defibrillator in state office buildings
Increase limit for the Qualified Education Tax Credit
Digital products and services sales and use tax
Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit revision and EITC refund
Manufactured homes sales tax exemption
State-administered deferred compensation plan for county tax commissioners
Moves the State Board of Veterinary Medicine to the Department of Agriculture
SHBP cap for cost-sharing or copay for insulin
Menstrual products sales tax exemption