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Bill Quality Basic Education Act; children placed in psychiatric residential treatment facilities may not be charged tuition; provide A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 1 of Article 6 of Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the short title and purpose of the "Quality Basic Education Act," so as to provide that children placed in psychiatric residential treatment facilities pursuant to a physician's order may not be charged tuition; to provide for eligibility for enrollment; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes. us/states/ga Georgia General Assembly 2017_18 HB 853 Georgia HB 853 (2017_18)
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Chuck Efstration
Katie Dempsey
Mary Oliver
Tommy Benton
0 18 1 2018-02-06 2018-07-01 openstates ocd-bill/e98faf59-958c-4e62-9327-571ee069f4ef http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl cf067f222fbeb8dcb4e5885f2e9992a4af95f83dec1fed838d3c6a9b6eec1a41 2026-07-01 https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump 2026-07-06 reported
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Georgia HB 853 (2017_18) — Quality Basic Education Act; children placed in psychiatric residential treatment facilities may not be charged tuition; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 1 of Article 6 of Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the short title and purpose of the "Quality Basic Education Act," so as to provide that children placed in psychiatric residential treatment facilities pursuant to a physician's order may not be charged tuition; to provide for eligibility for enrollment; 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.

Votes

  • PASSAGE — 1680 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • Brooks Coleman — primary (person)
  • Chuck Efstration — primary (person)
  • Katie Dempsey — primary (person)
  • Mary Oliver — primary (person)
  • Tommy Benton — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2018-02-06 House Hopper
  • 2018-02-07 House First Readers reading-1
  • 2018-02-08 House Second Readers reading-2
  • 2018-02-15 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
  • 2018-02-22 House Third Readers reading-3
  • 2018-02-22 House Passed/Adopted passage
  • 2018-02-23 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
  • 2018-03-23 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
  • 2018-03-23 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
  • 2018-03-27 Senate Tabled
  • 2018-03-29 Senate Taken from Table
  • 2018-03-29 Senate Third Read reading-3
  • 2018-03-29 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
  • 2018-03-29 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
  • 2018-04-05 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
  • 2018-05-03 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
  • 2018-05-03 Act 382 executive-signature
  • 2018-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e98faf59-958c-4e62-9327-571ee069f4ef. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).