republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2013-14/sb-82.md

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Bill	Education; change designations from North Georgia College to the University of North Georgia	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 3 of Article 6 of Chapter 3 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the Georgia Student Finance Authority, so as to change designations from North Georgia College to the University of North Georgia; to designate the University of North Georgia as the senior military college of Georgia; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2013_14	SB 82	Georgia SB 82 (2013_14)	bill		enacted	Bill Cowsert Brandon Beach Butch Miller Charlie Bethel David Shafer Jack Hill Jack Murphy Jason Carter Jeff Mullis John Albers John Wilkinson Ronnie Chance Steve Gooch Vincent Fort	4	16	1	2013-01-30	2013-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/ac9147be-4b83-43b8-9382-0b68ef585f5b	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	ade874a2047d263b7340151191ec09e3f230f8e0d4866929918736b5c52c99b2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 82 (2013_14) — Education; change designations from North Georgia College to the University of North Georgia

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 3 of Article 6 of Chapter 3 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the Georgia Student Finance Authority, so as to change designations from North Georgia College to the University of North Georgia; to designate the University of North Georgia as the senior military college of Georgia; 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. As introduced LC 21 2053 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 41 0066S (committee substitute) — source
4. SB 82/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — 52–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bill Cowsert — primary (person)
• Brandon Beach — primary (person)
• Butch Miller — primary (person)
• Charlie Bethel — primary (person)
• David Shafer — primary (person)
• Jack Hill — primary (person)
• Jack Murphy — primary (person)
• Jason Carter — primary (person)
• Jeff Mullis — primary (person)
• John Albers — primary (person)
• John Wilkinson — primary (person)
• Ronnie Chance — primary (person)
• Steve Gooch — primary (person)
• Vincent Fort — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-01-30 Senate Hopper
• 2013-01-31 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2013-02-21 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-02-22 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2013-02-25 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2013-02-25 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2013-02-26 House First Readers reading-1
• 2013-02-27 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2013-03-14 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-03-21 House Postponed
• 2013-03-22 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2013-03-22 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2013-04-04 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2013-05-07 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2013-05-07 Act 331 executive-signature
• 2013-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ac9147be-4b83-43b8-9382-0b68ef585f5b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).