republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2013-14/hb-70.md

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Bill	Special needs students; waiver of one of the scholarship requirements under certain conditions; provide	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 33 of Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the scholarship program for special needs students, so as to provide for the waiver of one of the scholarship requirements under certain conditions; to provide deadlines for scholarship payments to parents; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2013_14	HB 70	Georgia HB 70 (2013_14)	bill		enacted	Brooks Coleman Ed Setzler Edward Lindsey Margaret Kaiser Mike Dudgeon Rich Golick	6	17	1	2013-01-16	2013-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/95c6428b-1b66-4425-bbd0-fc5f49cd9fb9	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	d0387f9557820dadc80079a75a3c60935070cfc70641784c3665a18b8d42e495	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 70 (2013_14) — Special needs students; waiver of one of the scholarship requirements under certain conditions; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 33 of Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the scholarship program for special needs students, so as to provide for the waiver of one of the scholarship requirements under certain conditions; to provide deadlines for scholarship payments to parents; 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 70/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 33 4875/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 33 5079S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 33 5079S/hs (committee substitute) — source
5. Sen ctee sub LC 33 5217S (committee substitute) — source
6. Sen floor amend 1 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 165–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Brooks Coleman — primary (person)
• Ed Setzler — primary (person)
• Edward Lindsey — primary (person)
• Margaret Kaiser — primary (person)
• Mike Dudgeon — primary (person)
• Rich Golick — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-01-16 House Hopper
• 2013-01-17 House First Readers reading-1
• 2013-01-28 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2013-01-30 House Withdrawn, Recommitted referral-committee, withdrawal
• 2013-02-20 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-02-25 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2013-02-25 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2013-02-26 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2013-03-22 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-03-22 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2013-03-26 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2013-03-26 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2013-03-28 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
• 2013-04-04 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2013-05-06 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2013-05-06 Act 237 executive-signature
• 2013-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/95c6428b-1b66-4425-bbd0-fc5f49cd9fb9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).