republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2019-20/hb-957.md

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Bill	Education; certain charter school employees shall be included in the health insurance fund for public school teachers; provide	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to education generally, so as to provide that certain charter school employees shall be included in the health insurance fund for public school teachers; to provide that local start-up charter schools and state charter schools shall require proof of residency either at the time of application or enrollment; to extend the terms of members appointed to the State Charter Schools Commission; to provide for ownership and handling of student records by state charter schools; to revise the deadline for the virtual school performance audit; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2019_20	HB 957	Georgia HB 957 (2019_20)	bill		enacted	Ed Setzler Jan Jones Mike Cheokas Randy Nix Rick Jasperse	4	15	1	2020-02-19	2020-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/156f61eb-a233-4dd0-9809-2bdc1c192f13	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	f4d44e967e3f0cb4a9bb9aa667b999d5175f811352dbb3a2eddbe60bdcb09fca	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 957 (2019_20) — Education; certain charter school employees shall be included in the health insurance fund for public school teachers; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to education generally, so as to provide that certain charter school employees shall be included in the health insurance fund for public school teachers; to provide that local start-up charter schools and state charter schools shall require proof of residency either at the time of application or enrollment; to extend the terms of members appointed to the State Charter Schools Commission; to provide for ownership and handling of student records by state charter schools; to revise the deadline for the virtual school performance audit; 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 957/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 49 0122/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 49 0183S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 49 0183S/hs (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 165–4 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Ed Setzler — primary (person)
• Jan Jones — primary (person)
• Mike Cheokas — primary (person)
• Randy Nix — primary (person)
• Rick Jasperse — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-02-19 House Hopper
• 2020-02-20 House First Readers reading-1
• 2020-02-21 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2020-02-28 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-03-03 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2020-03-03 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2020-03-04 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2020-06-18 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-06-19 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2020-06-20 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2020-06-20 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2020-06-26 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2020-06-29 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2020-06-29 Act 375 executive-signature
• 2020-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/156f61eb-a233-4dd0-9809-2bdc1c192f13. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).