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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Georgia Lottery for Education Act; winner of lottery prize to remain anonymous under certain conditions; allow"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 27 of Title 50 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions regarding the Georgia Lottery for Education Act, so as to allow a winner of a lottery prize to remain anonymous under certain conditions; 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: "2017_18"
+identifier: "SB 331"
+citation: "Georgia SB 331 (2017_18)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Gloria Butler", "Greg Kirk", "Jeff Mullis", "Nan Orrock", "Steve Henson", "Tonya Anderson"]
+version_count: 0
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2018-01-18"
+last_action: "2018-05-07"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8e57b695-8b34-4275-a0b4-800d62df0ccf"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "fb93405ef4f6491138bf5334da3e6e2b9814dcfaa267abb3b18dae8340c740d7"
+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 SB 331 (2017_18) — Georgia Lottery for Education Act; winner of lottery prize to remain anonymous under certain conditions; allow
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 27 of Title 50 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions regarding the Georgia Lottery for Education Act, so as to allow a winner of a lottery prize to remain anonymous under certain conditions; 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.
+
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE AS AMENDED — **51–4** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Gloria Butler — primary (person)
+- Greg Kirk — primary (person)
+- Jeff Mullis — primary (person)
+- Nan Orrock — primary (person)
+- Steve Henson — primary (person)
+- Tonya Anderson — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-01-18** Senate Hopper
+- **2018-01-19** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-31** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-02-01** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2018-02-05** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2018-02-05** Senate Passed/Adopted As Amended `passage`
+- **2018-02-06** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2018-02-07** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2018-03-07** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-19** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2018-03-19** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2018-03-29** Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
+- **2018-04-05** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2018-05-07** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2018-05-07** Act 445 `executive-signature`
+- **2018-05-07** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8e57b695-8b34-4275-a0b4-800d62df0ccf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+