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Bill	Dyslexia; identification of and support for students in pre-kindergarten through second grade; provide	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 20 of the O.C.G.A., relating to education, so as to provide for identification of and support for students in pre-kindergarten through second grade with dyslexia; to provide for definitions; to require the Department of Education to make a dyslexia informational handbook available to local school systems; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2019_20	SB 48	Georgia SB 48 (2019_20)	bill		enacted	Brandon Beach Burt Jones Butch Miller Dean Burke Elena Parent Freddie Sims Gloria Butler Jennifer Jordan Jesse Stone Kay Kirkpatrick Matt Brass P. K. Martin IV Randy Robertson Renee Unterman Zahra Karinshak	8	16	1	2019-01-30	2019-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/4015c67b-a0bf-4d49-b420-7870e4d1a2f7	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	7012345aac7e7b0f42a133337b08d7e1c9300b8ff2af28c2508e57198e7be859	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 48 (2019_20) — Dyslexia; identification of and support for students in pre-kindergarten through second grade; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 20 of the O.C.G.A., relating to education, so as to provide for identification of and support for students in pre-kindergarten through second grade with dyslexia; to provide for definitions; to require the Department of Education to make a dyslexia informational handbook available to local school systems; 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. As introduced LC 33 7583 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 33 7725S (committee substitute) — source
4. Floor amend 1 AM 33 1835 (committee substitute) — source
5. Floor amend 2 AM 33 1836 (committee substitute) — source
6. Floor amend 3 (committee substitute) — source
7. LC 33 7998S/hss (committee substitute) — source
8. SB 48/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• ADOPTION OF AMENDMENT #3 BY THE SENATOR FROM THE 31ST — 6–48 (fail) · upper

Sponsors

• Brandon Beach — primary (person)
• Burt Jones — primary (person)
• Butch Miller — primary (person)
• Dean Burke — primary (person)
• Elena Parent — primary (person)
• Freddie Sims — primary (person)
• Gloria Butler — primary (person)
• Jennifer Jordan — primary (person)
• Jesse Stone — primary (person)
• Kay Kirkpatrick — primary (person)
• Matt Brass — primary (person)
• P. K. Martin IV — primary (person)
• Randy Robertson — primary (person)
• Renee Unterman — primary (person)
• Zahra Karinshak — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-01-30 Senate Hopper
• 2019-02-05 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2019-02-14 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-02-15 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2019-02-20 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2019-02-20 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2019-02-21 House First Readers reading-1
• 2019-02-22 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2019-03-22 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-03-25 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2019-03-25 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2019-03-29 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2019-04-05 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2019-05-02 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2019-05-02 Act 134 executive-signature
• 2019-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4015c67b-a0bf-4d49-b420-7870e4d1a2f7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).