---
type: "Bill"
title: "Education; programs; person solicit transaction with student-athlete; provide sanctions"
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, so as to provide sanctions for persons that enter into or solicit a transaction with a student-athlete that would result in sanctions to the student-athlete; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2015_16"
identifier: "HB 3"
citation: "Georgia HB 3 (2015_16)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barry Fleming"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 16
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2014-11-17"
last_action: "2015-05-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8673788f-c514-4a5c-b259-9534b4b52be7"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "9222cb8d85b114dd987b46fccbdf2113a85df47fd43540f16e8757e83d5cc25a"
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 3 (2015_16) — Education; programs; person solicit transaction with student-athlete; provide sanctions

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, so as to provide sanctions for persons that enter into or solicit a transaction with a student-athlete that would result in sanctions to the student-athlete; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; 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 3/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/153463.pdf)
2. **LC 33 5715/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/149424.pdf)
3. **LC 33 5715/pf** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/145150.pdf)
4. **LC 33 6089S/hcs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/151335.pdf)
5. **LC 33 6089S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/149987.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **145–27** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Barry Fleming — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2014-11-17** House Prefiled `introduction`
- **2015-02-26** House Hopper
- **2015-03-02** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2015-03-03** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2015-03-04** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-03-13** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2015-03-13** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2015-03-18** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-25** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-03-25** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2015-03-31** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2015-03-31** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2015-04-07** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2015-05-06** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2015-05-06** Act 101 `executive-signature`
- **2015-05-06** Effective Date

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8673788f-c514-4a5c-b259-9534b4b52be7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).