republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2019-20/sb-416.md

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Bill	Office of College and Career Transitions; change the name to Office of College and Career Academies	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 20-4-37 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the Office of College and Career Transitions and powers and duties, so as to change the name of the Office of College and Career Transitions to the Office of College and Career Academies; to provide for the appointment and duties of a director of said office; to provide for the approval of advisers to the State Board of the Technical College System of Georgia; to provide for collaboration between the office and certain entities to support efforts to recruit new industries and expand existing industries; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2019_20	SB 416	Georgia SB 416 (2019_20)	bill		enacted	Bruce Thompson Burt Jones Butch Miller Chuck Payne Chuck Hufstetler Ed Harbison Elena Parent Frank Ginn Jack Hill Jeff Mullis John Kennedy Larry Walker, III Lester Jackson Matt Brass Mike Dugan Nan Orrock Steve Gooch Tyler Harper William Ligon, Jr.	5	17	1	2020-02-20	2020-07-14	openstates	ocd-bill/7acc8269-99c3-4216-8a0a-3a0b82d7bdc0	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	be90b926261bee6ffdfbd5e64e099c24bae438db8db3c0cc5597d2ac7c51eb83	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 416 (2019_20) — Office of College and Career Transitions; change the name to Office of College and Career Academies

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 20-4-37 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the Office of College and Career Transitions and powers and duties, so as to change the name of the Office of College and Career Transitions to the Office of College and Career Academies; to provide for the appointment and duties of a director of said office; to provide for the approval of advisers to the State Board of the Technical College System of Georgia; to provide for collaboration between the office and certain entities to support efforts to recruit new industries and expand existing industries; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; 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. As introduced LC 49 0145 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 49 0212S (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 34 5704S/hrcs (committee substitute) — source
5. SB 416/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — 55–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bruce Thompson — primary (person)
• Burt Jones — primary (person)
• Butch Miller — primary (person)
• Chuck Payne — primary (person)
• Chuck Hufstetler — primary (person)
• Ed Harbison — primary (person)
• Elena Parent — primary (person)
• Frank Ginn — primary (person)
• Jack Hill — primary (person)
• Jeff Mullis — primary (person)
• John Kennedy — primary (person)
• Larry Walker, III — primary (person)
• Lester Jackson — primary (person)
• Matt Brass — primary (person)
• Mike Dugan — primary (person)
• Nan Orrock — primary (person)
• Steve Gooch — primary (person)
• Tyler Harper — primary (person)
• William Ligon, Jr. — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-02-20 Senate Hopper
• 2020-02-21 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2020-03-09 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-03-10 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2020-03-12 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2020-03-12 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2020-03-13 House First Readers reading-1
• 2020-06-15 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2020-06-17 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-06-24 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2020-06-24 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2020-06-24 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2020-06-25 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2020-06-29 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2020-07-14 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2020-07-14 Act 469 executive-signature
• 2020-07-14 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7acc8269-99c3-4216-8a0a-3a0b82d7bdc0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).