Georgia · Senate Resolution 56 · 2025-2026 Regular Session

Bona Fide Conservation Use Property; maximum acreage to qualify for assessment and taxation; increase -CA

  1. Introduced Jan 28, 2025
  2. In committee Jan 29, 2025
  3. Adopted by the Senate Feb 19, 2025

What it does

The legislature's own summary of the bill, or its official long title.

A RESOLUTION proposing an amendment to the Constitution so as to increase the maximum acreage to qualify for assessment and taxation as a bona fide conservation use property; to provide for related matters; to provide for the submission of this amendment for ratification or rejection; and for other purposes.

Every action

10 steps, oldest first, as the legislature records them.

  1. SenateSenate Hopper
  2. CommitteeSenate Read and Referred · Senate Finance
  3. CommitteeSenate Committee Favorably Reported · Senate Finance
  4. SenateSenate Read Second Time
  5. SenateSenate Engrossed
  6. SenateSenate Third Read
  7. SenateSenate Passed/Adopted
  8. CommitteeHouse First Readers · House Ways & Means
  9. HouseHouse Second Readers
  10. CommitteeHouse Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute · House Ways & Means

Roll calls

2 recorded votes: 2 on the floor, 0 in committee. Each shows how every member voted.

MOTION TO ENGROSS: SB 45, SB 59, SB 89, AND SR 56 (Senate Vote #63) · Full Senate

31–21
Feb 19, 2025 · journal entry
Yes 31 No 21 Not voting 4
Democrats: 0 yes, 20 no Republicans: 31 yes, 1 no
How each member voted

Yes · 31

No · 21

Not voting · 1

Excused · 3

ADOPTION OF CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT (Senate Vote #64) · Full Senate

Passed 51–1
Feb 19, 2025 · journal entry
Yes 51 No 1 Not voting 4
Democrats: 19 yes, 0 no Republicans: 32 yes, 1 no
How each member voted

Yes · 51

No · 1

Excused · 4

Sponsors

The member who introduced it, joined by 5 cosponsors: 5 Republicans.

All 5 cosponsors

From Georgia's official records (www.legis.ga.gov), checked Nov 13, 2026. Text links go to the official versions; LegiList does not copy bill text.