republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2021-22/sb-47.md

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Bill	Georgia Special Needs Scholarship Act; revise prior school year requirement	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 33 of Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the Georgia Special Needs Scholarship Act, so as to revise the prior school year requirement; to expand eligibility for students; to revise the basis for calculating scholarship amounts; to require annual parent surveys; to provide for a review procedure for scholarship calculations; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2021_22	SB 47	Georgia SB 47 (2021_22)	bill		enacted	Ben Watson Billy Hickman Brian Strickland Bruce Thompson Butch Miller Greg Dolezal Jason Anavitarte Jeff Mullis John Albers John Kennedy Larry Walker, III Lee Anderson Max Burns Mike Dugan Randy Robertson Steve Gooch	6	18	1	2021-01-28	2021-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/612277a7-54b8-40cd-8994-b78a4291da02	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	c765cdbfa62e174785c216ed12d64b1de9f98fa9e9aeaf50239d43eff2a8e64b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 47 (2021_22) — Georgia Special Needs Scholarship Act; revise prior school year requirement

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 33 of Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the Georgia Special Needs Scholarship Act, so as to revise the prior school year requirement; to expand eligibility for students; to revise the basis for calculating scholarship amounts; to require annual parent surveys; to provide for a review procedure for scholarship calculations; 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 0328 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 49 0442S (committee substitute) — source
4. Floor amend 1 AM 49 0021 (committee substitute) — source
5. LC 49 0523S/hss (committee substitute) — source
6. SB 47/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

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

Sponsors

• Ben Watson — primary (person)
• Billy Hickman — primary (person)
• Brian Strickland — primary (person)
• Bruce Thompson — primary (person)
• Butch Miller — primary (person)
• Greg Dolezal — primary (person)
• Jason Anavitarte — primary (person)
• Jeff Mullis — primary (person)
• John Albers — primary (person)
• John Kennedy — primary (person)
• Larry Walker, III — primary (person)
• Lee Anderson — primary (person)
• Max Burns — primary (person)
• Mike Dugan — primary (person)
• Randy Robertson — primary (person)
• Steve Gooch — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-01-28 Senate Hopper
• 2021-01-29 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2021-02-23 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-02-24 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
• 2021-03-25 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
• 2021-05-06 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2021-05-06 Act 243 executive-signature
• 2021-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/612277a7-54b8-40cd-8994-b78a4291da02. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).