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Bill	Education; provide for membership of certain boards in the event local legislation is not passed during 2014 regular session of General Assembly conforming size of boards to requirements of law; provisions	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 20-2-52.1 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to composition and election of county boards of education in counties in which there is a homestead option sales and use tax and a county sales and use tax for educational purposes and terms of service, so as to provide for membership of certain boards of education in the event that local legislation is not passed during the 2014 regular session of the General Assembly conforming the size of such boards to the requirements of law; to provide for terms of office for such members; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2013_14	HB 979	Georgia HB 979 (2013_14)	bill		enacted	Mary Oliver Mike Jacobs Scott Holcomb Tom Taylor	6	19	1	2014-02-10	2014-02-26	openstates	ocd-bill/e059a228-5aeb-4b5b-bcca-d28bbf2539e5	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	5a6956c6f266c21e453131b34d26da1aba7127f9770f1cc43953db6d0232f8db	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 979 (2013_14) — Education; provide for membership of certain boards in the event local legislation is not passed during 2014 regular session of General Assembly conforming size of boards to requirements of law; provisions

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 20-2-52.1 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to composition and election of county boards of education in counties in which there is a homestead option sales and use tax and a county sales and use tax for educational purposes and terms of service, so as to provide for membership of certain boards of education in the event that local legislation is not passed during the 2014 regular session of the General Assembly conforming the size of such boards to the requirements of law; to provide for terms of office for such members; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; 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 979/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 29 5929S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 29 5929S/hs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 33 5519/a (committee substitute) — source
5. Sen ctee sub LC 39 0686S (committee substitute) — source
6. Sen floor amend 1 AM 33 1407 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• TABLE — 61–112 (fail) · lower

Sponsors

• Mary Oliver — primary (person)
• Mike Jacobs — primary (person)
• Scott Holcomb — primary (person)
• Tom Taylor — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2014-02-10 House Hopper
• 2014-02-11 House First Readers reading-1
• 2014-02-17 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2014-02-18 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2014-02-20 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2014-02-20 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2014-02-20 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2014-02-20 House Immediately Transmitted to Senate
• 2014-02-21 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2014-02-25 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2014-02-25 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2014-02-26 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2014-02-26 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2014-02-26 Senate Transmitted House
• 2014-02-26 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
• 2014-02-26 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2014-02-26 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2014-02-26 Act 350 executive-signature
• 2014-02-26 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e059a228-5aeb-4b5b-bcca-d28bbf2539e5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).