republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/sb-348.md

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Bill	Education; provide for colleges and career academies as charter school or schools within a strategic waivers school system	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to education, so as to provide for college and career academies as charter schools or as schools within a strategic waivers school system or charter system; to provide for requirements; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	SB 348	Georgia SB 348 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Bill Cowsert Freddie Powell Sims John Wilkinson Lindsey Tippins Michael Williams	3	16	1	2016-02-08	2016-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/505768fe-3276-46f5-b52e-4c98e0cf71de	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	bf7b1441c73a1b1f97c48a32a99925a4612fa9c1af2d5639616a29fb2a35658e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 348 (2015_16) — Education; provide for colleges and career academies as charter school or schools within a strategic waivers school system

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to education, so as to provide for college and career academies as charter schools or as schools within a strategic waivers school system or charter system; to provide for requirements; 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 6426 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. SB 348/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 52–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bill Cowsert — primary (person)
• Freddie Powell Sims — primary (person)
• John Wilkinson — primary (person)
• Lindsey Tippins — primary (person)
• Michael Williams — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-08 Senate Hopper
• 2016-02-09 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2016-02-11 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-02-16 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2016-02-22 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2016-02-22 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2016-02-23 House First Readers reading-1
• 2016-02-24 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2016-03-07 House Withdrawn, Recommitted referral-committee, withdrawal
• 2016-03-11 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-03-22 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2016-03-22 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2016-03-31 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2016-05-03 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2016-05-03 Act 613 executive-signature
• 2016-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/505768fe-3276-46f5-b52e-4c98e0cf71de. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).