republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/hb-895.md

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Bill	Elementary and secondary education; finance directors of charter schools participate in initial and annual training; require	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 require finance directors of charter schools to participate in initial and annual training in financially operating a charter school; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	HB 895	Georgia HB 895 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	David Casas Mike Dudgeon Rahn Mayo Stacey Evans	4	17	1	2016-02-03	2016-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/83bd42b3-4773-4807-b6ec-b37afbcdb203	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	b2d2273d258eb023cf1fc4ab479194af4a5b8f8e7c13356c12503df4cd4f1c60	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 895 (2015_16) — Elementary and secondary education; finance directors of charter schools participate in initial and annual training; require

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 require finance directors of charter schools to participate in initial and annual training in financially operating a charter school; 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 895/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 33 6381/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 33 6565S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 33 6565S/hs (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 162–8 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• David Casas — primary (person)
• Mike Dudgeon — primary (person)
• Rahn Mayo — primary (person)
• Stacey Evans — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-03 House Hopper
• 2016-02-04 House First Readers reading-1
• 2016-02-08 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2016-02-24 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-02-29 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2016-02-29 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2016-03-02 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2016-03-14 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-03-14 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2016-03-22 Senate Tabled
• 2016-03-24 Senate Taken from Table
• 2016-03-24 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2016-03-24 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2016-03-30 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2016-05-03 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2016-05-03 Act 525 executive-signature
• 2016-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/83bd42b3-4773-4807-b6ec-b37afbcdb203. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).