---
type: "Bill"
title: "Education; eliminate Georgia High School Graduation Test as a requirement for graduation; provisions"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the elementary and secondary education, so as to eliminate the Georgia High School Graduation Test as a requirement for purposes of graduation; to provide procedures for former students who did not pass one or more portions of the Georgia High School Graduation Test to petition to obtain a high school diploma; to provide for notice of such petition option; to provide for changes for purposes of conformity; 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 91"
citation: "Georgia HB 91 (2015_16)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brooks Coleman", "Howard Maxwell", "Mike Dudgeon", "Terry England", "Tom Dickson", "Valerie Clark"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 15
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2015-01-26"
last_action: "2015-03-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6a82e60e-6906-4d68-ac39-36227fefff03"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "915165d74306d35fc580450da65689ef5a03468bd2547cc969bb2597b03046bf"
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 91 (2015_16) — Education; eliminate Georgia High School Graduation Test as a requirement for graduation; provisions

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the elementary and secondary education, so as to eliminate the Georgia High School Graduation Test as a requirement for purposes of graduation; to provide procedures for former students who did not pass one or more portions of the Georgia High School Graduation Test to petition to obtain a high school diploma; to provide for notice of such petition option; to provide for changes for purposes of conformity; 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 91/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/152497.pdf)
2. **LC 33 5748/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/145780.pdf)
3. **LC 33 5885S/hcs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/147923.pdf)
4. **LC 33 5885S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/147005.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **172–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Brooks Coleman — primary (person)
- Howard Maxwell — primary (person)
- Mike Dudgeon — primary (person)
- Terry England — primary (person)
- Tom Dickson — primary (person)
- Valerie Clark — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2015-01-26** House Hopper
- **2015-01-27** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2015-01-28** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2015-02-09** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-02-12** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2015-02-12** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2015-02-17** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-05** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-03-09** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2015-03-25** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2015-03-25** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2015-03-30** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2015-03-30** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2015-03-30** Act 14 `executive-signature`
- **2015-03-30** Effective Date

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6a82e60e-6906-4d68-ac39-36227fefff03`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).