republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2019-20/hb-86.md

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Bill	Education; complaints policy for teachers and other school personnel; provisions	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 11 of Article 17 of Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to complaints policy for teachers and other school personnel, so as to provide that performance ratings contained in personnel evaluations are subject to complaint for teachers who accepted a school year contract for the fourth or subsequent consecutive school year; to provide for appeals hearings to be conducted by independent third parties; to require local units of administration to submit copies of their complaint policies to the Department of Education; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2019_20	HB 86	Georgia HB 86 (2019_20)	bill		enacted	Colton Moore Gerald Greene Matthew Gambill Tommy Benton Valencia Stovall	7	20	1	2019-01-29	2021-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/856dec4f-676a-4dc5-b5cf-85ca78b35320	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	e956f29bd46bfb9fc4d07b7964044dc1f29fdea80543319af5c672e0756c47cc	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 86 (2019_20) — Education; complaints policy for teachers and other school personnel; provisions

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 11 of Article 17 of Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to complaints policy for teachers and other school personnel, so as to provide that performance ratings contained in personnel evaluations are subject to complaint for teachers who accepted a school year contract for the fourth or subsequent consecutive school year; to provide for appeals hearings to be conducted by independent third parties; to require local units of administration to submit copies of their complaint policies to the Department of Education; 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 86/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 33 7605/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 33 7876S/hs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 49 0181S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
5. LC 49 0181S/hs (committee substitute) — source
6. Sen ctee sub LC 49 0246S (committee substitute) — source
7. Sen ctee sub LC 49 0249S (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 155–2 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Colton Moore — primary (person)
• Gerald Greene — primary (person)
• Matthew Gambill — primary (person)
• Tommy Benton — primary (person)
• Valencia Stovall — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-01-29 House Hopper
• 2019-01-30 House First Readers reading-1
• 2019-02-05 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2019-03-04 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-04-02 House Withdrawn, Recommitted withdrawal, referral-committee
• 2020-03-09 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-03-12 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2020-03-12 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2020-03-13 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2020-06-22 Senate Withdrawn & Recommitted withdrawal, referral-committee
• 2020-06-24 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-06-24 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2020-06-25 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-06-25 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2020-06-25 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2020-06-26 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
• 2020-06-30 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2020-08-03 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2020-08-03 Act 546 executive-signature
• 2021-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/856dec4f-676a-4dc5-b5cf-85ca78b35320. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).