republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/sb-309.md

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Bill	Education; high school that receive state funding cannot participate in athletic association which prohibits religious expression on clothing of student athletes	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 14 of Article 6 of Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to certain programs and activities under the "Quality Basic Education Act," so as to provide that high schools that receive state funding cannot participate in an athletic association which prohibits religious expression on the clothing of student athletes; to provide that high schools that receive state funding cannot participate in an athletic association which prohibits member schools from organizing and playing scrimmage matches, games, or other athletic competitions with nonmember schools; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	SB 309	Georgia SB 309 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Burt Jones Butch Miller Charlie Bethel Hunter Hill JaNice VanNess Jeff Mullis Judson Hill Lindsey Tippins Renee Unterman Rick Jeffares William Ligon, Jr.	4	15	1	2016-01-28	2016-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/77c582ed-38ba-4ac5-9724-22521dcbde72	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	cec9e13d1f23d2698d9f8271b6f1e93d42697338c573ddea37e78c0ef15b6469	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 309 (2015_16) — Education; high school that receive state funding cannot participate in athletic association which prohibits religious expression on clothing of student athletes

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 14 of Article 6 of Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to certain programs and activities under the "Quality Basic Education Act," so as to provide that high schools that receive state funding cannot participate in an athletic association which prohibits religious expression on the clothing of student athletes; to provide that high schools that receive state funding cannot participate in an athletic association which prohibits member schools from organizing and playing scrimmage matches, games, or other athletic competitions with nonmember schools; 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 6374 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 33 6470S (committee substitute) — source
4. SB 309/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — 39–16 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Burt Jones — primary (person)
• Butch Miller — primary (person)
• Charlie Bethel — primary (person)
• Hunter Hill — primary (person)
• JaNice VanNess — primary (person)
• Jeff Mullis — primary (person)
• Judson Hill — primary (person)
• Lindsey Tippins — primary (person)
• Renee Unterman — primary (person)
• Rick Jeffares — primary (person)
• William Ligon, Jr. — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-01-28 Senate Hopper
• 2016-02-01 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2016-02-11 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-02-16 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2016-02-18 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2016-02-18 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2016-02-19 House First Readers reading-1
• 2016-02-22 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2016-03-02 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-03-10 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2016-03-10 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2016-03-29 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2016-05-03 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2016-05-03 Act 522 executive-signature
• 2016-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/77c582ed-38ba-4ac5-9724-22521dcbde72. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).