republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/hb-502.md

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Bill	Elementary and secondary education; update and clarify provisions and repeal obsolete provisions	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to elementary and secondary education, so as to update and clarify provisions in law and to repeal obsolete provisions; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	HB 502	Georgia HB 502 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Brooks Coleman Margaret Kaiser Mike Dudgeon Randy Nix Tom Dickson Valerie Clark	10	18	1	2015-02-26	2015-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/dd2f291d-c636-4362-9ff7-3ddd202654a2	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	71a003348428c3779778209c4cbdb4919e29046615276d7d56f575d3550b2075	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 502 (2015_16) — Elementary and secondary education; update and clarify provisions and repeal obsolete provisions

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to elementary and secondary education, so as to update and clarify provisions in law and to repeal obsolete provisions; 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 502/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 33 6051/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 33 6109S/hs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 33 6127S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
5. LC 33 6127S/hs (committee substitute) — source
6. SCSFA to HB 502 (committee substitute) — source
7. Sen ctee sub LC 33 6191S (committee substitute) — source
8. Sen fl amend 1 AM 33 1559 (committee substitute) — source
9. Sen fl amend 2 AM 33 1558 (committee substitute) — source
10. Sen floor am 1a (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 170–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Brooks Coleman — primary (person)
• Margaret Kaiser — primary (person)
• Mike Dudgeon — primary (person)
• Randy Nix — primary (person)
• Tom Dickson — primary (person)
• Valerie Clark — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-26 House Hopper
• 2015-02-26 House First Readers reading-1
• 2015-03-02 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2015-03-05 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-03-09 House Withdrawn, Recommitted referral-committee, withdrawal
• 2015-03-09 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-03-11 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2015-03-11 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2015-03-13 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
• 2015-04-14 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2015-05-12 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2015-05-12 Act 241 executive-signature
• 2015-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/dd2f291d-c636-4362-9ff7-3ddd202654a2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).