---
type: "Bill"
title: "Education; update and revise terminology; provisions"
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 update and revise terminology; to delete obsolete, unused, and unnecessary provisions; to revise funding weights; to revise provisions for earning funding for certain personnel; to revise provisions relating to submission of available positions; to provide for a grant program for technology capital; to revise provisions relating to home study programs; to clarify and revise certain provisions regarding charter schools, charter petitions, and charter funding; to authorize the Office of Student Achievement to establish a nonprofit corporation; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2013_14"
identifier: "HB 283"
citation: "Georgia HB 283 (2013_14)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brooks Coleman", "Margaret Kaiser", "Mike Dudgeon", "Paulette Braddock", "Terry England", "Tom Dickson"]
version_count: 12
action_count: 20
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2013-02-08"
last_action: "2013-05-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bc89c578-1610-460a-8537-74dc6fbf6e3b"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "e5710a727dab644c94371233529fca2de4afa8227cdf8c230005db384f7781cc"
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 283 (2013_14) — Education; update and revise terminology; provisions

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to education, so as to update and revise terminology; to delete obsolete, unused, and unnecessary provisions; to revise funding weights; to revise provisions for earning funding for certain personnel; to revise provisions relating to submission of available positions; to provide for a grant program for technology capital; to revise provisions relating to home study programs; to clarify and revise certain provisions regarding charter schools, charter petitions, and charter funding; to authorize the Office of Student Achievement to establish a nonprofit corporation; 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 283/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/137066.pdf)
2. **LC 33 5002/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/130258.pdf)
3. **LC 33 5080S/hcs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/132818.pdf)
4. **LC 33 5080S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/131400.pdf)
5. **SCSFA to HB 283** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/135709.pdf)
6. **SFA to HB 283** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/136629.pdf)
7. **Sen ctee sub LC 33 5226S** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/135349.pdf)
8. **Sen floor amend 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/136365.pdf)
9. **Sen floor amend 1 AM 33 1352** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/135630.pdf)
10. **Sen floor amend 1a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/136397.pdf)
11. **Sen floor amend 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/135650.pdf)
12. **Sen floor amend to HB 283** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/136617.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **169–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Brooks Coleman — primary (person)
- Margaret Kaiser — primary (person)
- Mike Dudgeon — primary (person)
- Paulette Braddock — primary (person)
- Terry England — primary (person)
- Tom Dickson — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2013-02-08** House Hopper
- **2013-02-11** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2013-02-12** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2013-02-20** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2013-02-28** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2013-02-28** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2013-03-01** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2013-03-22** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2013-03-22** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2013-03-25** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2013-03-25** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2013-03-26** House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub As Amended
- **2013-03-28** Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub As Amended
- **2013-03-28** House Disagreed Senate Amend or Sub
- **2013-03-28** Senate Insisted
- **2013-03-28** House Receded from Amend or Sub
- **2013-04-09** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2013-05-07** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2013-05-07** Act 335 `executive-signature`
- **2013-05-07** Effective Date

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bc89c578-1610-460a-8537-74dc6fbf6e3b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).