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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Veterinary education; limits on student loan forgiveness program; provide"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 6A of Article 7 of Chapter 3 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to state veterinary education, so as to provide for limits on the student loan forgiveness program; 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 172"
+citation: "Georgia HB 172 (2025_26)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["EDUCATION"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Chuck Efstration", "David Huddleston", "Jaclyn Ford", "Robert Dickey", "Spencer Frye"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 22
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-01-29"
+last_action: "2025-07-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1f6d3b43-0b95-49a2-8860-5ca3cc896d3b"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "64e2069ea29d4f77fc77b4944c24f584055f45ed23d3d8ac69ec50733428a767"
+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 172 (2025_26) — Veterinary education; limits on student loan forgiveness program; provide
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 6A of Article 7 of Chapter 3 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to state veterinary education, so as to provide for limits on the student loan forgiveness program; 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 172/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/239287.pdf)
+2. **LC 46 1037/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/230653.pdf)
+3. **LC 61 0124S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/232387.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- House Vote #82 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — **164–4** (pass) · lower
+- Senate Vote #457 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — **43–4** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Chuck Efstration — primary (person)
+- David Huddleston — primary (person)
+- Jaclyn Ford — primary (person)
+- Robert Dickey — primary (person)
+- Spencer Frye — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-29** House Hopper `introduction`
+- **2025-01-30** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2025-02-03** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2025-02-13** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-02-18** House Withdrawn, Recommitted `referral-committee, withdrawal`
+- **2025-02-20** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-02-26** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2025-02-26** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2025-02-27** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-13** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-18** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2025-03-31** Senate Tabled
+- **2025-04-02** Senate Taken from Table
+- **2025-04-02** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-02** Senate Tabled
+- **2025-04-04** Senate Taken from Table
+- **2025-04-04** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-04** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2025-04-09** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-05-12** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2025-05-12** Act 119 `executive-signature`
+- **2025-07-01** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1f6d3b43-0b95-49a2-8860-5ca3cc896d3b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+