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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Education; programs; person solicit transaction with student-athlete; provide sanctions"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 14 of Article 6 of Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to other educational programs, so as to provide sanctions for persons that enter into or solicit a transaction with a student-athlete that would result in sanctions to the student-athlete; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
+legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
+session: "2015_16"
+identifier: "HB 3"
+citation: "Georgia HB 3 (2015_16)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Barry Fleming"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2014-11-17"
+last_action: "2015-05-06"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8673788f-c514-4a5c-b259-9534b4b52be7"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "9222cb8d85b114dd987b46fccbdf2113a85df47fd43540f16e8757e83d5cc25a"
+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 3 (2015_16) — Education; programs; person solicit transaction with student-athlete; provide sanctions
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 14 of Article 6 of Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to other educational programs, so as to provide sanctions for persons that enter into or solicit a transaction with a student-athlete that would result in sanctions to the student-athlete; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; 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 3/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/153463.pdf)
+2. **LC 33 5715/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/149424.pdf)
+3. **LC 33 5715/pf** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/145150.pdf)
+4. **LC 33 6089S/hcs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/151335.pdf)
+5. **LC 33 6089S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/149987.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **145–27** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Barry Fleming — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2014-11-17** House Prefiled `introduction`
+- **2015-02-26** House Hopper
+- **2015-03-02** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2015-03-03** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2015-03-04** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2015-03-13** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2015-03-13** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2015-03-18** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2015-03-25** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2015-03-25** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2015-03-31** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2015-03-31** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2015-04-07** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2015-05-06** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2015-05-06** Act 101 `executive-signature`
+- **2015-05-06** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8673788f-c514-4a5c-b259-9534b4b52be7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+