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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Quality Basic Education Act; post sign containing telephone number to receive reports of child abuse; require every public school"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 15 of Article 6 of Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to miscellaneous provisions under the \"Quality Basic Education Act,\" so as to require every public school to post a sign containing the toll-free telephone number operated by the Division of Family and Children Services of the Department of Human Services to receive reports of child abuse or neglect; to provide for rules and regulations; to provide that no cause of action is created; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
+legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
+session: "2019_20"
+identifier: "HB 12"
+citation: "Georgia HB 12 (2019_20)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Becky Evans", "Bill Hitchens", "Marcus Wiedower", "Mike Wilensky", "Rick Williams", "Scott Holcomb"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2019-01-08"
+last_action: "2019-07-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e2370359-acd9-4674-acd6-aa879233370a"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "ce4294ac3cc975f040baa7492c0bfb1dfa48ffc965c617f751f4df4ab0b0d9fa"
+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 12 (2019_20) — Quality Basic Education Act; post sign containing telephone number to receive reports of child abuse; require every public school
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 15 of Article 6 of Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to miscellaneous provisions under the "Quality Basic Education Act," so as to require every public school to post a sign containing the toll-free telephone number operated by the Division of Family and Children Services of the Department of Human Services to receive reports of child abuse or neglect; to provide for rules and regulations; to provide that no cause of action is created; 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 12/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/187062.pdf)
+2. **LC 45 0134/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/180163.pdf)
+3. **LC 45 0134/pf** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/179365.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **166–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Becky Evans — primary (person)
+- Bill Hitchens — primary (person)
+- Marcus Wiedower — primary (person)
+- Mike Wilensky — primary (person)
+- Rick Williams — primary (person)
+- Scott Holcomb — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-01-08** House Prefiled `introduction`
+- **2019-01-30** House Hopper
+- **2019-02-05** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2019-02-06** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2019-03-01** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-05** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2019-03-05** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2019-03-07** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-26** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-26** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2019-03-29** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2019-03-29** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2019-04-04** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-05-02** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2019-05-02** Act 129 `executive-signature`
+- **2019-07-01** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e2370359-acd9-4674-acd6-aa879233370a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+