republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/hb-959.md

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Bill	Education; K-12; update and clarify certain provisions	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to education, so as to update and clarify certain provisions relating to K-12 education; to revise a provision relating to conflicts of interest of local board of education members; to provide that students who earn certain grades in dual enrollment courses in core subjects are exempt from taking end-of-course assessments for such courses; to authorize the sharing of data for certain program evaluation purposes; to provide for an annual review of tuition for the Georgia Virtual School; to eliminate a restriction on the Office of Student Achievement's authority to establish a nonprofit corporation; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	HB 959	Georgia HB 959 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Beth Beskin Brooks Coleman Mike Dudgeon Randy Nix Valencia Stovall Valerie Clark	5	15	1	2016-02-09	2016-05-03	openstates	ocd-bill/b163070d-fc0d-44b5-b30a-322005934689	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	76dd5550193d205f07bda976dfc90211b161ef856a0ab7e7e04f87a45dfcad83	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 959 (2015_16) — Education; K-12; update and clarify certain provisions

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to education, so as to update and clarify certain provisions relating to K-12 education; to revise a provision relating to conflicts of interest of local board of education members; to provide that students who earn certain grades in dual enrollment courses in core subjects are exempt from taking end-of-course assessments for such courses; to authorize the sharing of data for certain program evaluation purposes; to provide for an annual review of tuition for the Georgia Virtual School; to eliminate a restriction on the Office of Student Achievement's authority to establish a nonprofit corporation; 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 959/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 33 6405/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 33 6515S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 33 6515S/hs (committee substitute) — source
5. Sen ctee sub LC 33 6625S (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 157–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Beth Beskin — primary (person)
• Brooks Coleman — primary (person)
• Mike Dudgeon — primary (person)
• Randy Nix — primary (person)
• Valencia Stovall — primary (person)
• Valerie Clark — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-09 House Hopper
• 2016-02-10 House First Readers reading-1
• 2016-02-11 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2016-02-17 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-02-26 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2016-02-26 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2016-02-29 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2016-03-15 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-03-15 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2016-03-22 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2016-03-22 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2016-03-24 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
• 2016-04-05 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2016-05-03 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2016-05-03 Veto V11 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b163070d-fc0d-44b5-b30a-322005934689. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).