---
type: "Bill"
title: "Utopian Academy for the Arts Act; enact"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 20-2-2068.2 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to a facilities fund for charter schools, so as to prohibit additional requirements of a charter school to operate that has passed state facility inspections and received a certificate of occupancy; to provide 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: "2015_16"
identifier: "HB 372"
citation: "Georgia HB 372 (2015_16)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brooks Coleman", "Chad Nimmer", "Christian Coomer", "Mike Glanton", "Robert Dickey", "Terry Rogers"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2015-02-17"
last_action: "2015-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7a806d20-9b2c-49b8-ace3-ffa2309ea737"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "d52690c4d3f01c2787024e8aa7ad3e01087f3f53116e7f3ccc1b3527b571e281"
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 372 (2015_16) — Utopian Academy for the Arts Act; enact

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 20-2-2068.2 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to a facilities fund for charter schools, so as to prohibit additional requirements of a charter school to operate that has passed state facility inspections and received a certificate of occupancy; to provide 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. **Floor Amendment - AM 33 1571-EC** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/153502.pdf)
2. **HB 372/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/153946.pdf)
3. **LC 33 5949-EC/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/148231.pdf)
4. **Sen ctee sub LC 33 6178S** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/152479.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **170–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Brooks Coleman — primary (person)
- Chad Nimmer — primary (person)
- Christian Coomer — primary (person)
- Mike Glanton — primary (person)
- Robert Dickey — primary (person)
- Terry Rogers — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2015-02-17** House Hopper
- **2015-02-18** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2015-02-19** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2015-03-03** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-03-05** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2015-03-05** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2015-03-09** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-26** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-03-26** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2015-03-31** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2015-03-31** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2015-04-02** House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub As Amended
- **2015-04-02** Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
- **2015-04-14** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2015-04-21** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2015-04-21** Act 25 `executive-signature`
- **2015-07-01** Effective Date

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7a806d20-9b2c-49b8-ace3-ffa2309ea737`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).