republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2021-22/sb-59.md

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Bill	Education; additional QBE funding for each full-time equivalent student within a local charter school; provide	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to elementary and secondary education, so as to provide for additional QBE funding for each full-time equivalent student within a local charter school; to provide for a maximum amount of such funding available to each local charter school; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; to revise a definition; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2021_22	SB 59	Georgia SB 59 (2021_22)	bill		enacted	Bruce Thompson Butch Miller Chuck Payne Chuck Hufstetler Greg Dolezal John Albers Mike Dugan Steve Gooch	7	19	1	2021-02-01	2021-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/08d26c6b-ff10-48b9-a383-37eede85a0c9	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	7cd32e69978bc69ba55c08e4abeb26210b58132a7acc0ae9db6f32cef334128c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 59 (2021_22) — Education; additional QBE funding for each full-time equivalent student within a local charter school; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to elementary and secondary education, so as to provide for additional QBE funding for each full-time equivalent student within a local charter school; to provide for a maximum amount of such funding available to each local charter school; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; to revise a definition; 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 0349 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee amend 1 AM 49 0016 (committee substitute) — source
4. Committee sub LC 49 0410S (committee substitute) — source
5. Floor amend 1 AM 49 0027 (committee substitute) — source
6. LC 49 0544S/hss (committee substitute) — source
7. SB 59/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

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

Sponsors

• Bruce Thompson — primary (person)
• Butch Miller — primary (person)
• Chuck Payne — primary (person)
• Chuck Hufstetler — primary (person)
• Greg Dolezal — primary (person)
• John Albers — primary (person)
• Mike Dugan — primary (person)
• Steve Gooch — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-01 Senate Hopper
• 2021-02-02 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2021-02-18 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-02-22 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
• 2021-03-23 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
• 2021-03-29 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub As Amended
• 2021-03-31 House Agreed Senate 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 158 executive-signature
• 2021-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/08d26c6b-ff10-48b9-a383-37eede85a0c9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).