republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2019-20/hb-12.md

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Bill	Quality Basic Education Act; post sign containing telephone number to receive reports of child abuse; require every public school	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 15 of Article 6 of Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to miscellaneous provisions under the "Quality Basic Education Act," so as to require every public school to post a sign containing the toll-free telephone number operated by the Division of Family and Children Services of the Department of Human Services to receive reports of child abuse or neglect; to provide for rules and regulations; to provide that no cause of action is created; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2019_20	HB 12	Georgia HB 12 (2019_20)	bill		enacted	Becky Evans Bill Hitchens Marcus Wiedower Mike Wilensky Rick Williams Scott Holcomb	3	16	1	2019-01-08	2019-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/e2370359-acd9-4674-acd6-aa879233370a	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	ce4294ac3cc975f040baa7492c0bfb1dfa48ffc965c617f751f4df4ab0b0d9fa	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 12 (2019_20) — Quality Basic Education Act; post sign containing telephone number to receive reports of child abuse; require every public school

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 15 of Article 6 of Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to miscellaneous provisions under the "Quality Basic Education Act," so as to require every public school to post a sign containing the toll-free telephone number operated by the Division of Family and Children Services of the Department of Human Services to receive reports of child abuse or neglect; to provide for rules and regulations; to provide that no cause of action is created; 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 12/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 45 0134/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 45 0134/pf (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 166–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Becky Evans — primary (person)
• Bill Hitchens — primary (person)
• Marcus Wiedower — primary (person)
• Mike Wilensky — primary (person)
• Rick Williams — primary (person)
• Scott Holcomb — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-01-08 House Prefiled introduction
• 2019-01-30 House Hopper
• 2019-02-05 House First Readers reading-1
• 2019-02-06 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2019-03-01 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-03-05 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2019-03-05 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2019-03-07 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2019-03-26 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-03-26 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2019-03-29 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2019-03-29 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2019-04-04 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2019-05-02 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2019-05-02 Act 129 executive-signature
• 2019-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e2370359-acd9-4674-acd6-aa879233370a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).