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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Education; prohibit certain entities from being student scholarship organizations"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 2A of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to student scholarship organizations, so as to prohibit certain entities from being student scholarship organizations; 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 68"
+citation: "Georgia HB 68 (2019_20)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Barry Fleming", "Ed Setzler", "Ginny Ehrhart", "John Carson", "Mike Glanton", "Wes Cantrell"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2019-01-28"
+last_action: "2019-07-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b775e5a9-89e4-4f41-8da5-39f349982af7"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "cc901bcd8460898789bdeddc252f03242fd3d3530891f28d697698ed437865b3"
+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 68 (2019_20) — Education; prohibit certain entities from being student scholarship organizations
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 2A of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to student scholarship organizations, so as to prohibit certain entities from being student scholarship organizations; 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 68/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/187555.pdf)
+2. **LC 33 7585/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/179859.pdf)
+3. **Sen ctee sub LC 33 8008S** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/186851.pdf)
+4. **Sen ctee sub LC 46 0162S** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/185231.pdf)
+5. **Sen floor amend 1 AM 33 1920** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/186947.pdf)
+6. **Sen floor amend 1 AM 33 1926** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/187102.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **170–1** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Barry Fleming — primary (person)
+- Ed Setzler — primary (person)
+- Ginny Ehrhart — primary (person)
+- John Carson — primary (person)
+- Mike Glanton — primary (person)
+- Wes Cantrell — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-01-28** House Hopper
+- **2019-01-29** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2019-01-30** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2019-02-21** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-02-28** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2019-02-28** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2019-03-01** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-21** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-22** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2019-03-29** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-29** Senate Tabled
+- **2019-04-02** Senate Taken from Table
+- **2019-04-02** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2019-04-02** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2019-04-02** House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
+- **2019-04-11** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-05-02** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2019-05-02** Act 130 `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/b775e5a9-89e4-4f41-8da5-39f349982af7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+