republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2021-22/sb-153.md

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Bill	"Graduation Opportunities and Advanced Learning (GOAL) Act"; enact	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to education, so as to provide for GOAL academies; to provide for definitions; to provide for partnerships to establish GOAL academies as charter schools; to provide for the transition of system-collaborative state charter schools to GOAL academies; to provide for funding and for the calculation thereof; to provide for designation; to provide for data collection; to provide for eligibility criteria, requirements, and procedures; to provide for a short title; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2021_22	SB 153	Georgia SB 153 (2021_22)	bill		enacted	Blake Tillery Greg Dolezal	5	18	1	2021-02-10	2021-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/2c7c616e-b6ce-488b-be9b-0f676d83c359	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	76b84701be125d7572d3ec581370c27d3299d705bd58bb2c86f40291a1544684	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 153 (2021_22) — "Graduation Opportunities and Advanced Learning (GOAL) Act"; enact

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to education, so as to provide for GOAL academies; to provide for definitions; to provide for partnerships to establish GOAL academies as charter schools; to provide for the transition of system-collaborative state charter schools to GOAL academies; to provide for funding and for the calculation thereof; to provide for designation; to provide for data collection; to provide for eligibility criteria, requirements, and procedures; to provide for a short title; 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 49 0405 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 49 0482S (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 49 0550S/hss (committee substitute) — source
5. SB 153/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• MOTION TO TABLE ALL BILLS ON THE RULES CALENDAR — 32–17 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Blake Tillery — primary (person)
• Greg Dolezal — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-10 Senate Hopper
• 2021-02-11 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2021-03-01 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-03-03 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2021-03-05 Senate Tabled
• 2021-03-05 Senate Taken from Table
• 2021-03-05 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2021-03-05 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2021-03-08 House First Readers reading-1
• 2021-03-09 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2021-03-25 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-03-25 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2021-03-25 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2021-03-29 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2021-04-07 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2021-05-04 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2021-05-04 Act 156 executive-signature
• 2021-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2c7c616e-b6ce-488b-be9b-0f676d83c359. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).