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+type: "Bill"
+title: "\"Graduation Opportunities and Advanced Learning (GOAL) Act\"; enact"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to education, so as to provide for GOAL academies; to provide for definitions; to provide for partnerships to establish GOAL academies as charter schools; to provide for the transition of system-collaborative state charter schools to GOAL academies; to provide for funding and for the calculation thereof; to provide for designation; to provide for data collection; to provide for eligibility criteria, requirements, and procedures; to provide for a short title; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
+legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
+session: "2021_22"
+identifier: "SB 153"
+citation: "Georgia SB 153 (2021_22)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Blake Tillery", "Greg Dolezal"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 18
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2021-02-10"
+last_action: "2021-07-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2c7c616e-b6ce-488b-be9b-0f676d83c359"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "76b84701be125d7572d3ec581370c27d3299d705bd58bb2c86f40291a1544684"
+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 153 (2021_22) — "Graduation Opportunities and Advanced Learning (GOAL) Act"; enact
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to education, so as to provide for GOAL academies; to provide for definitions; to provide for partnerships to establish GOAL academies as charter schools; to provide for the transition of system-collaborative state charter schools to GOAL academies; to provide for funding and for the calculation thereof; to provide for designation; to provide for data collection; to provide for eligibility criteria, requirements, and procedures; to provide for a short title; 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. **As introduced LC 49 0405** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/197418.pdf)
+2. **As passed Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/199708.pdf)
+3. **Committee sub LC 49 0482S** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/199161.pdf)
+4. **LC 49 0550S/hss** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/201436.pdf)
+5. **SB 153/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/201787.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- MOTION TO TABLE ALL BILLS ON THE RULES CALENDAR — **32–17** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Blake Tillery — primary (person)
+- Greg Dolezal — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-02-10** Senate Hopper
+- **2021-02-11** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-01** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-03-03** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2021-03-05** Senate Tabled
+- **2021-03-05** Senate Taken from Table
+- **2021-03-05** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2021-03-05** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2021-03-08** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2021-03-09** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2021-03-25** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-03-25** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2021-03-25** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2021-03-29** Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
+- **2021-04-07** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-05-04** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2021-05-04** Act 156 `executive-signature`
+- **2021-07-01** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2c7c616e-b6ce-488b-be9b-0f676d83c359`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+