---
type: "Bill"
title: "Quality Basic Education Act; post sign containing telephone number to receive reports of child abuse; require every public school"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 15 of Article 6 of Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to miscellaneous provisions under the \"Quality Basic Education Act,\" so as to require every public school to post a sign containing the toll-free telephone number operated by the Division of Family and Children Services of the Department of Human Services to receive reports of child abuse or neglect; to provide for rules and regulations; to provide that no cause of action is created; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2019_20"
identifier: "HB 12"
citation: "Georgia HB 12 (2019_20)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Becky Evans", "Bill Hitchens", "Marcus Wiedower", "Mike Wilensky", "Rick Williams", "Scott Holcomb"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 16
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2019-01-08"
last_action: "2019-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e2370359-acd9-4674-acd6-aa879233370a"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "ce4294ac3cc975f040baa7492c0bfb1dfa48ffc965c617f751f4df4ab0b0d9fa"
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 12 (2019_20) — Quality Basic Education Act; post sign containing telephone number to receive reports of child abuse; require every public school

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 15 of Article 6 of Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to miscellaneous provisions under the "Quality Basic Education Act," so as to require every public school to post a sign containing the toll-free telephone number operated by the Division of Family and Children Services of the Department of Human Services to receive reports of child abuse or neglect; to provide for rules and regulations; to provide that no cause of action is created; 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 12/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/187062.pdf)
2. **LC 45 0134/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/180163.pdf)
3. **LC 45 0134/pf** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/179365.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **166–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Becky Evans — primary (person)
- Bill Hitchens — primary (person)
- Marcus Wiedower — primary (person)
- Mike Wilensky — primary (person)
- Rick Williams — primary (person)
- Scott Holcomb — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-08** House Prefiled `introduction`
- **2019-01-30** House Hopper
- **2019-02-05** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2019-02-06** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2019-03-01** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-05** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2019-03-05** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2019-03-07** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-26** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-26** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2019-03-29** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2019-03-29** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2019-04-04** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-02** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-02** Act 129 `executive-signature`
- **2019-07-01** Effective Date

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e2370359-acd9-4674-acd6-aa879233370a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).