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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Tracy Rainey Act; enact"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Subpart 1 of Part 6 of Article 6 of Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to employment of certificated professional personnel in elementary and secondary education, so as to give a short title to a Code section relating to qualification for certain certificates for military spouses; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
+legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
+session: "2017_18"
+identifier: "HB 739"
+citation: "Georgia HB 739 (2017_18)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Al Williams", "Bill Hitchens", "Dave Belton", "Ron Stephens"]
+version_count: 0
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2018-01-24"
+last_action: "2018-07-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/89b77920-718e-4616-a2e0-e5c9a561c881"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "48f5f97cd63dcb9866431175411969ad0650c8383a800568d8e976c422992804"
+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 739 (2017_18) — Tracy Rainey Act; enact
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Subpart 1 of Part 6 of Article 6 of Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to employment of certificated professional personnel in elementary and secondary education, so as to give a short title to a Code section relating to qualification for certain certificates for military spouses; 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.
+
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **162–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Al Williams — primary (person)
+- Bill Hitchens — primary (person)
+- Dave Belton — primary (person)
+- Ron Stephens — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-01-24** House Hopper
+- **2018-01-25** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2018-01-29** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2018-02-06** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-02-12** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2018-02-12** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2018-02-13** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-15** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-19** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2018-03-21** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2018-03-21** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2018-04-03** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2018-05-07** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2018-05-07** Act 426 `executive-signature`
+- **2018-07-01** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/89b77920-718e-4616-a2e0-e5c9a561c881`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+