republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/sb-156.md

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Bill	State Charter Schools Commission; authorize to establish a nonprofit foundation	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 31A of Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to state charter schools, so as to authorize the State Charter Schools Commission to establish a nonprofit foundation; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	SB 156	Georgia SB 156 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	David Shafer Ellis Black Fran Millar Jesse Stone John Wilkinson Lindsey Tippins Michael Williams	3	15	1	2015-02-23	2015-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/accfaed1-0b43-46b9-91e4-bd761955068a	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	6e0256cf79f03b1567ee89cb22ef7bd893b209ffb71efb28f2ff6a9387dbbdce	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 156 (2015_16) — State Charter Schools Commission; authorize to establish a nonprofit foundation

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 31A of Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to state charter schools, so as to authorize the State Charter Schools Commission to establish a nonprofit foundation; 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. As introduced LC 33 5996 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. SB 156/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 44–9 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• David Shafer — primary (person)
• Ellis Black — primary (person)
• Fran Millar — primary (person)
• Jesse Stone — primary (person)
• John Wilkinson — primary (person)
• Lindsey Tippins — primary (person)
• Michael Williams — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-23 Senate Hopper
• 2015-02-24 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2015-03-03 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-03-04 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2015-03-09 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2015-03-09 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2015-03-11 House First Readers reading-1
• 2015-03-13 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2015-03-26 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-04-02 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2015-04-02 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2015-04-09 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2015-05-06 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2015-05-06 Act 182 executive-signature
• 2015-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/accfaed1-0b43-46b9-91e4-bd761955068a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).