republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2019-20/sb-83.md

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Bill	Quality Basic Education; elective courses in History and Literature of the Old and New Testament Eras; provisions; revise	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 2 of Article 6 of Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to competencies and core curriculum relative to quality basic education, so as to revise provisions relating to elective courses in History and Literature of the Old and New Testament Eras; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2019_20	SB 83	Georgia SB 83 (2019_20)	bill		enacted	Bill Heath Burt Jones Butch Miller Greg Kirk Jeff Mullis John Albers John Wilkinson Mike Dugan Steve Gooch Tyler Harper	5	16	1	2019-02-08	2019-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/384c7268-e194-45ab-8a29-dce2dc1137ad	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	54c9954102044748e5a63cabf51fc6f157938cf1de3033a996f5ddf75ce9e5f7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 83 (2019_20) — Quality Basic Education; elective courses in History and Literature of the Old and New Testament Eras; provisions; revise

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 2 of Article 6 of Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to competencies and core curriculum relative to quality basic education, so as to revise provisions relating to elective courses in History and Literature of the Old and New Testament Eras; 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 7598 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 33 7812S (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 33 7984S/hss (committee substitute) — source
5. SB 83/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — 56–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bill Heath — primary (person)
• Burt Jones — primary (person)
• Butch Miller — primary (person)
• Greg Kirk — primary (person)
• Jeff Mullis — primary (person)
• John Albers — primary (person)
• John Wilkinson — primary (person)
• Mike Dugan — primary (person)
• Steve Gooch — primary (person)
• Tyler Harper — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-08 Senate Hopper
• 2019-02-11 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2019-02-28 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-03-01 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2019-03-04 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2019-03-04 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2019-03-05 House First Readers reading-1
• 2019-03-07 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2019-03-21 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-03-26 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2019-03-26 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2019-04-02 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2019-04-09 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2019-05-06 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2019-05-06 Act 229 executive-signature
• 2019-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/384c7268-e194-45ab-8a29-dce2dc1137ad. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).