republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2021-22/sb-66.md

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Bill	Georgia Foundation for Public Education; a nonprofit corporation created by the foundation to receive private donations to be used for grants to public schools; authorize	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 20 and Title 48 of the O.C.G.A., relating to education and revenue and taxation, respectively, so as to authorize a nonprofit corporation incorporated by the Georgia Foundation for Public Education to receive private donations to be used for grants to public schools; to provide for the expiration of the Public Education Innovation Fund Foundation's authority to promote public-private partnerships and to receive private donations to be used for grants to public schools; to provide for grant criteria; to provide for the dissolution of the Public Education Innovation Fund Foundation; to revise definitions; to provide for an income tax credit for qualified education donations; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2021_22	SB 66	Georgia SB 66 (2021_22)	bill		enacted	Bill Cowsert Billy Hickman Brian Strickland Bruce Thompson Chuck Payne Elena Parent Jason Anavitarte Jeff Mullis John Albers Larry Walker, III Marty Harbin Randy Robertson Sonya Halpern	4	17	1	2021-02-01	2021-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/66cae329-30eb-4652-b717-108f98530ea3	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	429d89e9805d6146e184ae6274ee25ea7c255e364eb17a877cf8dbcd6ea8d58d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 66 (2021_22) — Georgia Foundation for Public Education; a nonprofit corporation created by the foundation to receive private donations to be used for grants to public schools; authorize

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 20 and Title 48 of the O.C.G.A., relating to education and revenue and taxation, respectively, so as to authorize a nonprofit corporation incorporated by the Georgia Foundation for Public Education to receive private donations to be used for grants to public schools; to provide for the expiration of the Public Education Innovation Fund Foundation's authority to promote public-private partnerships and to receive private donations to be used for grants to public schools; to provide for grant criteria; to provide for the dissolution of the Public Education Innovation Fund Foundation; to revise definitions; to provide for an income tax credit for qualified education donations; 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 0358 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 49 0423S (committee substitute) — source
4. SB 66/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

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

Sponsors

• Bill Cowsert — primary (person)
• Billy Hickman — primary (person)
• Brian Strickland — primary (person)
• Bruce Thompson — primary (person)
• Chuck Payne — primary (person)
• Elena Parent — primary (person)
• Jason Anavitarte — primary (person)
• Jeff Mullis — primary (person)
• John Albers — primary (person)
• Larry Walker, III — primary (person)
• Marty Harbin — primary (person)
• Randy Robertson — primary (person)
• Sonya Halpern — 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
• 2021-02-23 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
• 2021-03-15 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-03-18 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2021-03-18 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2021-04-07 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2021-05-04 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2021-05-04 Act 157 executive-signature
• 2021-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/66cae329-30eb-4652-b717-108f98530ea3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).