republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/hb-62.md

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Bill	Special needs students; waive certain qualifications for a student whose parent is an active duty military service member stationed in Georgia within the previous year; provide	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 20-2-2114 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to qualifications for the scholarship program for special needs students, so as to waive certain qualifications for students whose parent is an active duty military service member stationed in Georgia within the previous year; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	HB 62	Georgia HB 62 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Bruce Broadrick James Epps Kevin Tanner Mike Dudgeon Stacey Evans Tom Dickson	2	15	1	2015-01-14	2015-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/e534a238-51da-4fd1-95fa-f217594a4e37	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	91be4ee89e8e2a3808a86a8186182cfd958ad4d55c9e7ef29febcf33ae5f4190	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 62 (2015_16) — Special needs students; waive certain qualifications for a student whose parent is an active duty military service member stationed in Georgia within the previous year; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 20-2-2114 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to qualifications for the scholarship program for special needs students, so as to waive certain qualifications for students whose parent is an active duty military service member stationed in Georgia within the previous year; 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 62/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 33 5687/a (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 163–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bruce Broadrick — primary (person)
• James Epps — primary (person)
• Kevin Tanner — primary (person)
• Mike Dudgeon — primary (person)
• Stacey Evans — primary (person)
• Tom Dickson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-01-14 House Hopper
• 2015-01-15 House First Readers reading-1
• 2015-01-26 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2015-02-09 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-02-11 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2015-02-11 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2015-02-12 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2015-03-19 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-03-20 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2015-03-24 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2015-03-24 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2015-04-06 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2015-04-29 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2015-04-29 Act 32 executive-signature
• 2015-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e534a238-51da-4fd1-95fa-f217594a4e37. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).