Georgia legislation · 2025-2026 Regular Session
Georgia HB1307: Brookhaven, City of; increase existing homestead exemption for senior citizens and disabled persons to $200,000.00
Status: Signed into law, May 11, 2026
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act to incorporate the City of Brookhaven in DeKalb County, approved April 16, 2012 (Ga. L. 2012, p. 5527), as amended, so as to increase the existing homestead exemption for senior citizens and disabled persons to $200,000.00; to specify the terms and conditions of the exemption and the procedures relating thereto; to provide for applicability; to provide for compliance with constitutional requirements; to provide for a referendum, effective dates, automatic repeal, mandatory execution of election, and judicial remedies regarding failure to comply; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
What the bill says
To amend an Act incorporating the City of Brookhaven, approved April 16, 2012 (Ga. L. 2012, p. 5527), and for other purposes. The City of Brookhaven seeks to amend the Act to ++ increase the exemption from City ad valorem taxes for seniors with homestead-exempt property in the City of Brookhaven ++ to $200,000 from $160,000 as currently provided in Section 5.09(b)(1) of the Charter of the City of Brookhaven. AFFIDAVIT GEORGIA, FULTON COUNTY I, Shea Roberts, Representative from District 52, state on oath as follows: (1) I am the author of the local bill to which this affidavit is attache.
From the introduced text:
a bill to amend an Act incorporating the City of Brookhaven, approved April 16, 2012 (Ga. L. 2012, p. 5527), and for other purposes. The City of Brookhaven seeks to amend the Act to ++ increase the exemption from City ad valorem taxes for seniors with homestead-exempt property in the City of Brookhaven ++ to $200,000 from $160,000 as currently provided in Section 5.09(b)(1) of the Charter of the City of Brookhaven. AFFIDAVIT GEORGIA, FULTON COUNTY I, Shea Roberts, Representative from District 52, state on oath as follows: (1) I am the author of the local bill to which this affidavit is attached. (2) In accordance with O.C.G.A. § 28-1-14, the notice requirements for the local bill to which this affidavit is attached have been satisfied, including but not limited to the following: (A) The Notice of Intention to Introduce Local Legislation which is attached to such local bill was published in the Champion, which is the official organ of DeKalb County, on the 22nd of January, 2026; and (B) If the local bill amends the charter of a municipality or the enabling Act of the governing authority of a county or consolidated government, then a copy of the Notice of Intention to Introduce Local Legislation was mailed, transmitted by facsimile, or otherwise provided to the governing authority of such …