republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/hb-320.md

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Bill	Scholarships; provide public disclosure of certain records held by Georgia Student Finance Commission, Georgia Higher Education Assistance Corporation and Georgia Student Finance Authority is not required; provisions	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 7 of Chapter 3 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to scholarships, loans, and grants, so as to provide that public disclosure of certain records held by the Georgia Student Finance Commission, the Georgia Higher Education Assistance Corporation, and the Georgia Student Finance Authority is not required; to provide, without judicial action, for the garnishment of pay, loss of a professional license, offset of lottery winnings, and offset of a state tax refund for amounts owed to the Georgia Student Finance Commission and the Georgia Student Finance Authority; to provide for definitions; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	HB 320	Georgia HB 320 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Allen Peake Amy Carter Chuck Williams Matt Hatchett Matt Ramsey Patty Bentley	5	17	1	2015-02-11	2015-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/924e0d11-5862-4916-b404-5876935e55ec	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	0b2cfb6a8458d5b70a5437fcf371a05dff09cae6e098325238d46a17e8cd6707	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 320 (2015_16) — Scholarships; provide public disclosure of certain records held by Georgia Student Finance Commission, Georgia Higher Education Assistance Corporation and Georgia Student Finance Authority is not required; provisions

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 7 of Chapter 3 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to scholarships, loans, and grants, so as to provide that public disclosure of certain records held by the Georgia Student Finance Commission, the Georgia Higher Education Assistance Corporation, and the Georgia Student Finance Authority is not required; to provide, without judicial action, for the garnishment of pay, loss of a professional license, offset of lottery winnings, and offset of a state tax refund for amounts owed to the Georgia Student Finance Commission and the Georgia Student Finance Authority; to provide for definitions; 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. Floor Amendment - AM 25 1348 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB 320/AP* (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 41 0384/a (committee substitute) — source
4. Sen floor am 1 AM 41 0106 (committee substitute) — source
5. Sen floor am 2 AM 41 0108 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 160–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Allen Peake — primary (person)
• Amy Carter — primary (person)
• Chuck Williams — primary (person)
• Matt Hatchett — primary (person)
• Matt Ramsey — primary (person)
• Patty Bentley — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-11 House Hopper
• 2015-02-12 House First Readers reading-1
• 2015-02-17 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2015-02-18 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-02-20 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2015-02-20 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2015-02-23 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2015-03-20 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-03-23 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2015-03-24 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2015-03-24 Senate Passed/Adopted As Amended passage
• 2015-03-27 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub As Amended
• 2015-04-02 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2015-04-14 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2015-05-06 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2015-05-06 Act 144 executive-signature
• 2015-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/924e0d11-5862-4916-b404-5876935e55ec. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).