republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/hb-91.md

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Bill	Education; eliminate Georgia High School Graduation Test as a requirement for graduation; provisions	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the elementary and secondary education, so as to eliminate the Georgia High School Graduation Test as a requirement for purposes of graduation; to provide procedures for former students who did not pass one or more portions of the Georgia High School Graduation Test to petition to obtain a high school diploma; to provide for notice of such petition option; to provide for changes for purposes of conformity; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	HB 91	Georgia HB 91 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Brooks Coleman Howard Maxwell Mike Dudgeon Terry England Tom Dickson Valerie Clark	4	15	1	2015-01-26	2015-03-30	openstates	ocd-bill/6a82e60e-6906-4d68-ac39-36227fefff03	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	915165d74306d35fc580450da65689ef5a03468bd2547cc969bb2597b03046bf	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 91 (2015_16) — Education; eliminate Georgia High School Graduation Test as a requirement for graduation; provisions

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the elementary and secondary education, so as to eliminate the Georgia High School Graduation Test as a requirement for purposes of graduation; to provide procedures for former students who did not pass one or more portions of the Georgia High School Graduation Test to petition to obtain a high school diploma; to provide for notice of such petition option; to provide for changes for purposes of conformity; 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 91/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 33 5748/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 33 5885S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 33 5885S/hs (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 172–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Brooks Coleman — primary (person)
• Howard Maxwell — primary (person)
• Mike Dudgeon — primary (person)
• Terry England — primary (person)
• Tom Dickson — primary (person)
• Valerie Clark — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-01-26 House Hopper
• 2015-01-27 House First Readers reading-1
• 2015-01-28 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2015-02-09 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-02-12 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2015-02-12 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2015-02-17 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2015-03-05 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-03-09 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2015-03-25 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2015-03-25 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2015-03-30 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2015-03-30 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2015-03-30 Act 14 executive-signature
• 2015-03-30 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6a82e60e-6906-4d68-ac39-36227fefff03. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).