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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Quality Basic Education Act; require certain schools that offer after-school programs to make such programs available to pre-kindergarten students"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 14 of Article 6 of Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to other educational programs under the \"Quality Basic Education Act,\" so as to require certain schools that offer after-school programs to make such programs available to pre-kindergarten students on the same basis as the school's other students; to provide for limited waivers of such requirement; to provide for definitions; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
+legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
+session: "2025_26"
+identifier: "HB 1123"
+citation: "Georgia HB 1123 (2025_26)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["EDUCATION"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bethany Ballard", "Chris Erwin", "Jan Jones", "Sandy Donatucci", "Scott Hilton", "Sharon Cooper"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2026-02-02"
+last_action: "2026-05-05"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2ff0e6bd-31e8-41a8-bd80-c0816cb85ebe"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "693a554235c7fc4aad8e33de89aa1899c0d935ce2956e7467149e7c62df4090e"
+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 1123 (2025_26) — Quality Basic Education Act; require certain schools that offer after-school programs to make such programs available to pre-kindergarten students
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 14 of Article 6 of Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to other educational programs under the "Quality Basic Education Act," so as to require certain schools that offer after-school programs to make such programs available to pre-kindergarten students on the same basis as the school's other students; to provide for limited waivers of such requirement; to provide for definitions; 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 1123/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/246701.pdf)
+2. **LC 49 2546/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/241095.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Senate Vote #753 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — **46–0** (pass) · upper
+- House Vote #544 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — **162–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bethany Ballard — primary (person)
+- Chris Erwin — primary (person)
+- Jan Jones — primary (person)
+- Sandy Donatucci — primary (person)
+- Scott Hilton — primary (person)
+- Sharon Cooper — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2026-02-02** House Hopper `introduction`
+- **2026-02-03** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2026-02-04** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2026-02-20** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-02-24** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2026-02-24** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2026-02-25** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2026-03-12** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-03-16** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2026-03-19** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2026-03-19** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2026-04-06** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2026-05-05** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2026-05-05** Act 393 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2ff0e6bd-31e8-41a8-bd80-c0816cb85ebe`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+