republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2021-22/sb-588.md

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Bill	Local Boards of Education; all meetings of local boards of education shall be open to the public except as otherwise provided by law; provide	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 3 of Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to local boards of education, so as to provide that all meetings of local boards of education shall be open to the public except as otherwise provided by law; to provide that members of the public shall not be removed from such public meetings except for actual disruption and in accordance with rules adopted and published by the local board of education; to provide that visual and sound recording shall be permitted at such public meetings; to provide for the authority of superior courts to enforce compliance and award relief; to provide for attorneys' fees; to provide for construction; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2021_22	SB 588	Georgia SB 588 (2021_22)	bill		enacted	Butch Miller Clint Dixon Jason Anavitarte John Albers Marty Harbin	4	18	1	2022-03-02	2022-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/a554531a-abaf-4d48-bad8-134cd548c2a2	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	dbaaca953add0b35464aef80e3eae6c55ebdbff1c930f266c4c4dfa068ac7cbc	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 588 (2021_22) — Local Boards of Education; all meetings of local boards of education shall be open to the public except as otherwise provided by law; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 3 of Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to local boards of education, so as to provide that all meetings of local boards of education shall be open to the public except as otherwise provided by law; to provide that members of the public shall not be removed from such public meetings except for actual disruption and in accordance with rules adopted and published by the local board of education; to provide that visual and sound recording shall be permitted at such public meetings; to provide for the authority of superior courts to enforce compliance and award relief; to provide for attorneys' fees; to provide for construction; 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 0912 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 49 0973S/hss (committee substitute) — source
4. SB 588/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 32–20 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Butch Miller — primary (person)
• Clint Dixon — primary (person)
• Jason Anavitarte — primary (person)
• John Albers — primary (person)
• Marty Harbin — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-03-02 Senate Hopper
• 2022-03-03 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2022-03-09 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-03-11 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2022-03-15 Senate Tabled
• 2022-03-15 Senate Taken from Table
• 2022-03-15 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2022-03-15 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2022-03-16 House First Readers reading-1
• 2022-03-17 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2022-03-25 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-03-28 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2022-03-28 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2022-03-30 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2022-04-07 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2022-04-28 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2022-04-28 Act 721 executive-signature
• 2022-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a554531a-abaf-4d48-bad8-134cd548c2a2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).