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Bill	Local School Systems; financial management; strengthen provisions	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to education, so as to strengthen provisions relating to the financial management of local school systems; to provide for training for local board of education members and local school superintendents on financial management; to provide for monthly reporting to the local board of education on the financial stability of the local school system; to provide for designation by the Department of Audits and Accounts of high-risk local school systems and moderate-risk local school systems based on annual audits; to provide for financial management provisions in flexibility contracts and system charters; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2019_20	SB 68	Georgia SB 68 (2019_20)	bill		enacted	Dean Burke Elena Parent Freddie Sims Jennifer Jordan John Wilkinson Larry Walker, III Sally Harrell Steve Henson Tyler Harper Valencia Seay Zahra Karinshak	8	21	1	2019-02-07	2021-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/8dae556a-ac3a-4aeb-b70a-82cf2c333ab5	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	e9eb7844b75bc6c735a1bab5b2d731c1194f41cfd59f7cd2275d139297fcac51	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 68 (2019_20) — Local School Systems; financial management; strengthen provisions

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to education, so as to strengthen provisions relating to the financial management of local school systems; to provide for training for local board of education members and local school superintendents on financial management; to provide for monthly reporting to the local board of education on the financial stability of the local school system; to provide for designation by the Department of Audits and Accounts of high-risk local school systems and moderate-risk local school systems based on annual audits; to provide for financial management provisions in flexibility contracts and system charters; 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 7507 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. CCS to SB68 LC 49 0248S (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 33 7999S/hss (committee substitute) — source
5. LC 33 8027S/hrs (committee substitute) — source
6. LC 33 8032S/hrs (committee substitute) — source
7. SB68/AP* (committee substitute) — source
8. Sen floor amend 1 AM 34 0801 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 53–1 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Dean Burke — primary (person)
• Elena Parent — primary (person)
• Freddie Sims — primary (person)
• Jennifer Jordan — primary (person)
• John Wilkinson — primary (person)
• Larry Walker, III — primary (person)
• Sally Harrell — primary (person)
• Steve Henson — primary (person)
• Tyler Harper — primary (person)
• Valencia Seay — primary (person)
• Zahra Karinshak — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-07 Senate Hopper
• 2019-02-08 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2019-02-21 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-02-22 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2019-02-25 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2019-02-25 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2019-02-26 House First Readers reading-1
• 2019-02-27 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2019-03-22 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-03-29 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2019-03-29 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2019-04-02 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub As Amended
• 2019-04-02 House Disagreed Senate Amend or Sub
• 2020-03-04 Senate Conference Committee Appointed 12th, 9th, 31st
• 2020-03-05 House Conference Committee Appointed 9th, 11th, 74th
• 2020-06-25 Senate Conference Committee Report Adopted
• 2020-06-26 House Conference Committee Report Adopted
• 2020-06-29 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2020-06-29 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2020-06-29 Act 389 executive-signature
• 2021-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8dae556a-ac3a-4aeb-b70a-82cf2c333ab5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).