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+type: "Bill"
+title: "HOPE; revise amount of grants; equal student's cost of tuition"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 20-3-519.5 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to eligibility requirements for HOPE grants, so as to revise the amount of HOPE grants; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
+legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
+session: "2013_14"
+identifier: "HB 697"
+citation: "Georgia HB 697 (2013_14)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Calvin Smyre", "Chad Nimmer", "Earl Ehrhart", "Lynne Riley", "Stacey Abrams", "Stacey Evans"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 20
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2013-11-15"
+last_action: "2014-07-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f8605aef-97f6-4523-b935-c6480b912d59"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "fa17f2c48ac190b40b9a036d55d57a39529876784b873fc5747b4e372bdb125b"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ga"]
+---
+
+# Georgia HB 697 (2013_14) — HOPE; revise amount of grants; equal student's cost of tuition
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 20-3-519.5 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to eligibility requirements for HOPE grants, so as to revise the amount of HOPE grants; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB 697/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/144805.pdf)
+2. **LC 33 5264/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/137345.pdf)
+3. **LC 33 5264/pf** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/137250.pdf)
+4. **LC 33 5447ER-ECS/hcs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/140363.pdf)
+5. **LC 33 5447ER-ECS/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/139609.pdf)
+6. **Sen ctee sub LC 41 0232S** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/142895.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **172–2** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Calvin Smyre — primary (person)
+- Chad Nimmer — primary (person)
+- Earl Ehrhart — primary (person)
+- Lynne Riley — primary (person)
+- Stacey Abrams — primary (person)
+- Stacey Evans — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2013-11-15** House Prefiled `introduction`
+- **2014-01-13** House Hopper
+- **2014-01-14** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2014-01-15** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2014-02-11** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2014-02-19** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2014-02-19** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2014-02-20** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2014-03-07** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2014-03-10** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2014-03-18** Senate Engrossed `passage`
+- **2014-03-18** Senate Tabled
+- **2014-03-20** Senate Taken from Table
+- **2014-03-20** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2014-03-20** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2014-03-20** House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
+- **2014-03-26** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2014-04-29** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2014-04-29** Act 636 `executive-signature`
+- **2014-07-01** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f8605aef-97f6-4523-b935-c6480b912d59`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+