republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2021-22/sb-81.md

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Bill	Office of College and Career Transitions; change name to the Office of College and Career Academies	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 20-4-37 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the Office of College and Career Transitions and powers and duties, so as to change the name of the Office of College and Career Transitions to the Office of College and Career Academies; to provide for increased technical skills; to provide for collaboration between the Technical College System of Georgia and certain entities to support efforts to recruit new industries and expand existing industries; 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 81	Georgia SB 81 (2021_22)	bill		enacted	Billy Hickman Burt Jones Butch Miller Chuck Payne Chuck Hufstetler Ed Harbison Elena Parent Frank Ginn Freddie Powell Sims Jeff Mullis John Kennedy Larry Walker, III Lester Jackson Matt Brass Mike Dugan Nikki Merritt Russ Goodman Steve Gooch Tonya Anderson Tyler Harper	4	16	1	2021-02-02	2021-05-06	openstates	ocd-bill/d656de60-c311-4445-a34a-c4e7e79f2bb7	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	d351fb6a1b586a04dc9cf60a13eaf50dc8654f7401281144a478591c5cbb92f5	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 81 (2021_22) — Office of College and Career Transitions; change name to the Office of College and Career Academies

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 20-4-37 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the Office of College and Career Transitions and powers and duties, so as to change the name of the Office of College and Career Transitions to the Office of College and Career Academies; to provide for increased technical skills; to provide for collaboration between the Technical College System of Georgia and certain entities to support efforts to recruit new industries and expand existing industries; 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 0381 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 49 0561S/hrcs (committee substitute) — source
4. SB 81/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 51–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Billy Hickman — primary (person)
• Burt Jones — primary (person)
• Butch Miller — primary (person)
• Chuck Payne — primary (person)
• Chuck Hufstetler — primary (person)
• Ed Harbison — primary (person)
• Elena Parent — primary (person)
• Frank Ginn — primary (person)
• Freddie Powell Sims — primary (person)
• Jeff Mullis — primary (person)
• John Kennedy — primary (person)
• Larry Walker, III — primary (person)
• Lester Jackson — primary (person)
• Matt Brass — primary (person)
• Mike Dugan — primary (person)
• Nikki Merritt — primary (person)
• Russ Goodman — primary (person)
• Steve Gooch — primary (person)
• Tonya Anderson — primary (person)
• Tyler Harper — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-02 Senate Hopper
• 2021-02-03 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2021-02-10 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-02-11 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2021-02-17 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2021-02-17 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2021-02-18 House First Readers reading-1
• 2021-02-22 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2021-03-25 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-03-29 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2021-03-29 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2021-03-31 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 252 executive-signature
• 2021-05-06 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d656de60-c311-4445-a34a-c4e7e79f2bb7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).