republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2013-14/hb-697.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	HOPE; revise amount of grants; equal student's cost of tuition	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 20-3-519.5 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to eligibility requirements for HOPE grants, so as to revise the amount of HOPE grants; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2013_14	HB 697	Georgia HB 697 (2013_14)	bill		enacted	Calvin Smyre Chad Nimmer Earl Ehrhart Lynne Riley Stacey Abrams Stacey Evans	6	20	1	2013-11-15	2014-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/f8605aef-97f6-4523-b935-c6480b912d59	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	fa17f2c48ac190b40b9a036d55d57a39529876784b873fc5747b4e372bdb125b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 697 (2013_14) — HOPE; revise amount of grants; equal student's cost of tuition

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 20-3-519.5 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to eligibility requirements for HOPE grants, so as to revise the amount of HOPE grants; 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 697/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 33 5264/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 33 5264/pf (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 33 5447ER-ECS/hcs (committee substitute) — source
5. LC 33 5447ER-ECS/hs (committee substitute) — source
6. Sen ctee sub LC 41 0232S (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 172–2 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Calvin Smyre — primary (person)
• Chad Nimmer — primary (person)
• Earl Ehrhart — primary (person)
• Lynne Riley — primary (person)
• Stacey Abrams — primary (person)
• Stacey Evans — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-11-15 House Prefiled introduction
• 2014-01-13 House Hopper
• 2014-01-14 House First Readers reading-1
• 2014-01-15 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2014-02-11 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2014-02-19 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2014-02-19 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2014-02-20 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2014-03-07 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2014-03-10 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2014-03-18 Senate Engrossed passage
• 2014-03-18 Senate Tabled
• 2014-03-20 Senate Taken from Table
• 2014-03-20 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2014-03-20 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2014-03-20 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
• 2014-03-26 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2014-04-29 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2014-04-29 Act 636 executive-signature
• 2014-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f8605aef-97f6-4523-b935-c6480b912d59. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).