Georgia Amendment 18, Homestead Exemptions for Veterans Measure (1978)

Georgia Amendment 18
Election date November 7, 1978
Topic Taxes and Veterans policy
Status Approved
Type Legislatively referred constitutional amendment	Origin State legislature

Georgia Amendment 18 was on the ballot as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment in Georgia on November 7, 1978. It was approved.

A "yes" vote supported increasing the homestead exemption to $25,000 for disabled veterans with severe disabilities and extend the exemption to their unremarried widow or minor children.

A "no" vote opposed increasing the homestead exemption to $25,000 for disabled veterans with severe disabilities and extend the exemption to their unremarried widow or minor children.

Election results

Georgia Amendment 18
Result		Votes	Percentage
Yes		312,755	63.80%
No		177,450	36.20%

Results are officially certified.

Source

Text of measure

Ballot title

The ballot title for Amendment 18 was as follows:

“

Shall the Constitution be amended so as to increase the homestead exemption from $12,500.00 to $25,000.00 for disabled veterans who have been disabled due to loss, or loss of use, of both lower extremities, such as to preclude locomotion without the aid of braces, crutches, canes, or a wheelchair, or blindness in both eyes, having only light perception, plus loss, or loss of use, of one lower extremity, or due to the loss, or loss of use, of one lower extremity together with residuals of organic disease or injury which so affects the functions of balance or propulsion as to preclude locomotion without resort to a wheelchair and to provide for a homestead exemption equal to the homestead exemption received by the veteran during his lifetime for his unremarried widow or minor children so long as his unremarried widow or minor children continue to actually occupy the home as a residence and homestead?

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Path to the ballot

See also: Amending the Georgia Constitution

A two-thirds (66.67%) vote is required during one legislative session for the Georgia State Legislature to place an amendment on the ballot. That amounts to a minimum of 120 votes in the Georgia House of Representatives and 38 votes in the Georgia State Senate, assuming no vacancies. Amendments do not require the governor's signature to be referred to the ballot.

See also

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