republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2019-20/hb-68.md

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Bill	Education; prohibit certain entities from being student scholarship organizations	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 2A of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to student scholarship organizations, so as to prohibit certain entities from being student scholarship organizations; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2019_20	HB 68	Georgia HB 68 (2019_20)	bill		enacted	Barry Fleming Ed Setzler Ginny Ehrhart John Carson Mike Glanton Wes Cantrell	6	19	1	2019-01-28	2019-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/b775e5a9-89e4-4f41-8da5-39f349982af7	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	cc901bcd8460898789bdeddc252f03242fd3d3530891f28d697698ed437865b3	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 68 (2019_20) — Education; prohibit certain entities from being student scholarship organizations

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 2A of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to student scholarship organizations, so as to prohibit certain entities from being student scholarship organizations; 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 68/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 33 7585/a (committee substitute) — source
3. Sen ctee sub LC 33 8008S (committee substitute) — source
4. Sen ctee sub LC 46 0162S (committee substitute) — source
5. Sen floor amend 1 AM 33 1920 (committee substitute) — source
6. Sen floor amend 1 AM 33 1926 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 170–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Barry Fleming — primary (person)
• Ed Setzler — primary (person)
• Ginny Ehrhart — primary (person)
• John Carson — primary (person)
• Mike Glanton — primary (person)
• Wes Cantrell — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-01-28 House Hopper
• 2019-01-29 House First Readers reading-1
• 2019-01-30 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2019-02-21 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-02-28 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2019-02-28 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2019-03-01 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2019-03-21 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-03-22 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2019-03-29 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-03-29 Senate Tabled
• 2019-04-02 Senate Taken from Table
• 2019-04-02 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2019-04-02 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2019-04-02 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
• 2019-04-11 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2019-05-02 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2019-05-02 Act 130 executive-signature
• 2019-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b775e5a9-89e4-4f41-8da5-39f349982af7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).