LOCAL LEGISLATION CALENDAR GEORGIA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
Tuesday, March 15th, 2016 
HB 1131 by Representative Gardner of the 57th FULTON COUNTY: A Bill to provide for the levy of retail sales and use tax by the City of Atlanta for the purpose of providing public transportation of passengers for hire in the metropolitan area of the City of Atlanta. 
HB 1137 by Representative Cooke of the 18th HARALSON COUNTY: A Bill to amend an Act consolidating the office of Tax Receiver and Tax Collector of Haralson County into the office of Tax Commissioner, so as to modify the compensation of the tax commissioner. 
HB 1139 by Representative Jasperse of the 11th GORDON COUNTY: A Bill to repeal and replace the Charter of the City of Fairmount, so as to change the corporate limits of the city by annexing certain territory to the city. 
PURSUANT TO ARTICLE VII, SECTION II, PARAGRAPH IV OF THE STATE CONSTITUTION, THE FOLLOWING LOCAL BILL RELATING TO HOMESTEAD EXEMPTIONS REQUIRES A TWO-THIRDS ROLL-CALL VOTE FOR PASSAGE: 
HB 1138 by Representative Cooke of the 18th HARALSON COUNTY: A Bill to provide a homestead exemption from Haralson County ad valorem taxes for county purposes in the amount of $4,000 of the assessed value of the homestead for residents of that county who are 65 years of age or older and whose income, together with the income of the spouse of such resident who resides within such homestead and excluding certain retirement income, does not exceed $10,000.