republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/hb-209.md

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Bill	Georgia Special Needs Scholarship Act; prior school year attendance requirement to prior semester; revise	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 "Georgia Special Needs Scholarship Act," so as to revise the prior school year attendance requirement to the prior semester; to revise provisions relating to notification of parents of eligible students as to scholarship options; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	HB 209	Georgia HB 209 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	David Casas Mike Glanton Sam Teasley Stacey Evans Valencia Stovall Wes Cantrell	5	16	1	2015-02-03	2015-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/786f594b-a7b1-4274-8003-82ad215d1d81	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	7565ace0360d03f8703194cd27a798321789a8d1ed30134dca8b45fb9a7d94ed	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 209 (2015_16) — Georgia Special Needs Scholarship Act; prior school year attendance requirement to prior semester; revise

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 "Georgia Special Needs Scholarship Act," so as to revise the prior school year attendance requirement to the prior semester; to revise provisions relating to notification of parents of eligible students as to scholarship options; 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 209/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 33 5836/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 33 6112S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 33 6112S/hs (committee substitute) — source
5. Sen ctee sub LC 33 6189S (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 168–4 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• David Casas — primary (person)
• Mike Glanton — primary (person)
• Sam Teasley — primary (person)
• Stacey Evans — primary (person)
• Valencia Stovall — primary (person)
• Wes Cantrell — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-03 House Hopper
• 2015-02-04 House First Readers reading-1
• 2015-02-09 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2015-03-05 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-03-13 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2015-03-13 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2015-03-18 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2015-03-26 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-03-26 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2015-03-31 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2015-03-31 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2015-04-02 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
• 2015-04-08 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2015-05-12 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2015-05-12 Act 201 executive-signature
• 2015-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/786f594b-a7b1-4274-8003-82ad215d1d81. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).