---
type: "Bill"
title: "Quality Basic Education Act; student's continued enrollment in a public school under certain circumstances; provide"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 13 of Article 6 of Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to organization of schools and school systems under the \"Quality Basic Education Act,\" so as to provide for a student's continued enrollment in a public school under certain circumstances; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2017_18"
identifier: "HB 852"
citation: "Georgia HB 852 (2017_18)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brenda Lopez", "Doreen Carter", "Gerald Greene", "Michael Smith", "Rhonda Burnough"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 15
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2018-02-06"
last_action: "2018-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a7a5d2ac-dbda-4e36-89d6-9447706f1561"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "d72a3e34d54df6677647c59b56a38aa47033794b8199051347777f3a1d06e058"
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 852 (2017_18) — Quality Basic Education Act; student's continued enrollment in a public school under certain circumstances; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 13 of Article 6 of Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to organization of schools and school systems under the "Quality Basic Education Act," so as to provide for a student's continued enrollment in a public school under certain circumstances; 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.


## Votes

- PASSAGE — **169–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Brenda Lopez — primary (person)
- Doreen Carter — primary (person)
- Gerald Greene — primary (person)
- Michael Smith — primary (person)
- Rhonda Burnough — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-06** House Hopper
- **2018-02-07** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2018-02-08** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2018-02-15** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-28** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2018-02-28** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2018-03-01** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-14** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-15** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2018-03-19** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2018-03-19** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2018-04-03** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2018-05-07** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-07** Act 431 `executive-signature`
- **2018-07-01** Effective Date

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a7a5d2ac-dbda-4e36-89d6-9447706f1561`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).