republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2021-22/sb-514.md

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Bill	"Unmask Georgia Students Act"; enact	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the O.C.G.A., relating to elementary and secondary education, so as to provide that no local board of education, local school superintendent, or school administrator, teacher, or other school personnel shall make or enforce any rule that requires a student to wear a face mask or face covering while present on school property unless such rule provides that a parent or guardian of such student may elect for his or her child to be exempt from such rule; to provide that a parent or guardian making such election shall not be required to provide a reason or any certification of the child's health or education status; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2021_22	SB 514	Georgia SB 514 (2021_22)	bill		enacted	Billy Hickman Bo Hatchett Brandon Beach Brian Strickland Burt Jones Butch Miller Carden Summers Chuck Payne Clint Dixon Jeff Mullis John Albers Marty Harbin Matt Brass Max Burns Randy Robertson Russ Goodman Steve Gooch Tyler Harper	4	16	1	2022-02-14	2022-03-29	openstates	ocd-bill/e36f8f65-9243-48f6-b4e9-b9509eec27f8	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	d2dbe8921eb3aa68d117c363402a4ef1e390cddc3cf3c7f17246f5d318de04db	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 514 (2021_22) — "Unmask Georgia Students Act"; enact

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the O.C.G.A., relating to elementary and secondary education, so as to provide that no local board of education, local school superintendent, or school administrator, teacher, or other school personnel shall make or enforce any rule that requires a student to wear a face mask or face covering while present on school property unless such rule provides that a parent or guardian of such student may elect for his or her child to be exempt from such rule; to provide that a parent or guardian making such election shall not be required to provide a reason or any certification of the child's health or education status; to provide for related matters; to provide for 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 0846-EC (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Floor amend 1 (committee substitute) — source
4. SB 514/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• ADOPTION OF AMENDMENT #1 BY THE SENATOR FROM THE 27TH — 30–20 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Billy Hickman — primary (person)
• Bo Hatchett — primary (person)
• Brandon Beach — primary (person)
• Brian Strickland — primary (person)
• Burt Jones — primary (person)
• Butch Miller — primary (person)
• Carden Summers — primary (person)
• Chuck Payne — primary (person)
• Clint Dixon — primary (person)
• Jeff Mullis — primary (person)
• John Albers — primary (person)
• Marty Harbin — primary (person)
• Matt Brass — primary (person)
• Max Burns — primary (person)
• Randy Robertson — primary (person)
• Russ Goodman — primary (person)
• Steve Gooch — primary (person)
• Tyler Harper — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-02-14 Senate Hopper
• 2022-02-15 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2022-02-24 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-02-28 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2022-03-01 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2022-03-01 Senate Passed/Adopted As Amended passage
• 2022-03-03 House First Readers reading-1
• 2022-03-04 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2022-03-22 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-03-25 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2022-03-25 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2022-03-25 House Notice to Reconsider
• 2022-03-28 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2022-03-29 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2022-03-29 Act 586 executive-signature
• 2022-03-29 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e36f8f65-9243-48f6-b4e9-b9509eec27f8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).