republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2021-22/sb-107.md

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Bill	Postsecondary Education Grants; waiver of tuition and all fees, for qualifying foster and adopted students by units of the University System of Georgia and the Technical College System of Georgia; provide	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 12 of Chapter 3 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to postsecondary education grants for foster children and adopted children, so as to provide for the waiver of tuition and all fees, including mandatory rooming and board fees, for qualifying foster and adopted students by units of the University System of Georgia and the Technical College System of Georgia, subject to certain exceptions; to provide for such exceptions; to provide for student qualifications; to provide for the involvement and duties of the Division of Family and Children Services; to provide for definitions; to provide for construction; to provide for related matters; to provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2021_22	SB 107	Georgia SB 107 (2021_22)	bill		enacted	Brian Strickland Butch Miller Kay Kirkpatrick Mike Dugan Tonya Anderson	7	18	1	2021-02-08	2021-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/5491dab5-d16a-4092-bee7-e3c1d550e3be	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	74bf9e07bfbac052315080608e6b5d998476de68dfc347edcc22bf540c2691cf	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 107 (2021_22) — Postsecondary Education Grants; waiver of tuition and all fees, for qualifying foster and adopted students by units of the University System of Georgia and the Technical College System of Georgia; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 12 of Chapter 3 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to postsecondary education grants for foster children and adopted children, so as to provide for the waiver of tuition and all fees, including mandatory rooming and board fees, for qualifying foster and adopted students by units of the University System of Georgia and the Technical College System of Georgia, subject to certain exceptions; to provide for such exceptions; to provide for student qualifications; to provide for the involvement and duties of the Division of Family and Children Services; to provide for definitions; to provide for construction; to provide for related matters; to provide 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 0362 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 49 0418S (committee substitute) — source
4. Floor Amendment AM 49 0026 (committee substitute) — source
5. LC 49 0520S/hss (committee substitute) — source
6. SB 107/AP* (committee substitute) — source
7. SB 107/HCSFA (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• MOTION TO TABLE ALL BILLS ON RULES CALENDAR — 33–14 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Brian Strickland — primary (person)
• Butch Miller — primary (person)
• Kay Kirkpatrick — primary (person)
• Mike Dugan — primary (person)
• Tonya Anderson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-08 Senate Hopper
• 2021-02-09 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2021-02-24 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-02-25 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2021-03-03 Senate Tabled
• 2021-03-03 Senate Taken from Table
• 2021-03-03 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2021-03-03 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2021-03-05 House First Readers reading-1
• 2021-03-08 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2021-03-22 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-03-29 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2021-03-29 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2021-03-31 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2021-04-07 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2021-05-03 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2021-05-03 Act 139 executive-signature
• 2021-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5491dab5-d16a-4092-bee7-e3c1d550e3be. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).