Every jurisdiction in this catalog has entries whose figures move when a bill passes, whose act takes effect on a later date, or whose program is repealed while its agency keeps advertising it. This page watches each jurisdiction's law, follows a bill through its own jurisdiction's process where its stages are recorded, and names the catalog entries each instrument touches.
4 instruments in Georgia. Tracked across 51 jurisdictions. Every other jurisdiction on the board is still watched by hand.
A bill that died is listed only where a guide, an agency, or a news story has described it as current law. That is the failure that puts a number in front of a veteran which no assessor, registrar, or school will honor.
▲Expands benefitsRaises the retirement income exclusion at 65, which reaches military retired pay, from $65,000 to $70,000.
The Georgia Economic Growth and Tax Relief Act of 2026 amended Code section 48-7-27 so that, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2027, the retirement income exclusion is $35,000 for taxpayers 62 to 64 or disabled and $70,000, up from $65,000, for taxpayers 65 or older. It did not touch the $65,000 military retirement exclusion for taxpayers under 65 enacted by House Bill 266 of 2025, which also begins in 2027. Signed May 11, 2026.
▲▼Expands and restrictsOpens state veterans cemeteries to reserve members and Hmong and Laotian veterans, but adds the federal criminal-offense bars.
Revised Code section 38-4-70 from July 1, 2026: reserve component eligibility by reference to the federal Burial Equity for Guards and Reserves Act of 2021, a route for a Hmong or Laotian special guerrilla unit veteran of 1961 to 1975 who was a Georgia resident at death, on affidavits and naturalization records, a Veterans Service Board discretion for substantial compliance, and the 38 U.S.C. 2411 criminal-offense bars. The department keeps authority to charge a per-person burial fee. Signed May 11, 2026.
=No change to benefitsThe version signed has no veteran provision; the free plates under Code section 40-2-69 did not change.
The General Assembly’s caption still reads "License Plates for Certain Veterans; the number of free license plates issued to certain veterans; increase". The version signed on May 11, 2026 revises license plate penalties, dealer plates and unregistered vehicle permits and contains no veteran provision; the free plates under Code section 40-2-69 did not change. Tracked because the caption describes a change that is not law.
▲Expands benefitsLets a retiree under 65 exclude up to $65,000 of military retirement income from Georgia tax.
Lets an individual under 65 exclude up to $65,000 of armed forces retirement income, claimable separately by each spouse on a joint return and not stackable with the general retirement exclusion. Sources disagree on when: the Department of Revenue legislative summary puts section 1 at January 1, 2027 and taxable years beginning on or after it, while news coverage of the signing reported the 2026 tax year. The catalog follows the department. The Department of Veterans Service page still describes the old under-62 amounts.
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