republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2023-24/hb-970.md

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Bill	Realizing Educational Achievement Can Happen (REACH) Scholarship; victims of human trafficking are eligible; provide	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 4 of Article 7 of Chapter 3 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the Realizing Educational Achievement Can Happen (REACH) Scholarship, so as to provide that victims of human trafficking are eligible for such scholarship; to provide for the designation of REACH scholars; to provide for funding; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2023_24	HB 970	Georgia HB 970 (2023_24)	bill		enacted	Bethany Ballard Chris Erwin Danny Mathis David Knight Katie Dempsey Robert Dickey	2	17	2	2024-01-22	2024-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/1284c9ce-5db8-47d4-ad1f-9458b0c15853	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	0d51d3855095e78a4a2aaa712e60cb24598f67ccb465fd73fd5007a913c873ba	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 970 (2023_24) — Realizing Educational Achievement Can Happen (REACH) Scholarship; victims of human trafficking are eligible; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 4 of Article 7 of Chapter 3 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the Realizing Educational Achievement Can Happen (REACH) Scholarship, so as to provide that victims of human trafficking are eligible for such scholarship; to provide for the designation of REACH scholars; to provide for funding; 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. HB 970/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 49 1635/a (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate Vote #829 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 53–0 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #447 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 165–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bethany Ballard — primary (person)
• Chris Erwin — primary (person)
• Danny Mathis — primary (person)
• David Knight — primary (person)
• Katie Dempsey — primary (person)
• Robert Dickey — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-22 House Hopper introduction
• 2024-01-23 House First Readers reading-1
• 2024-01-24 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2024-02-01 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-02-08 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2024-02-08 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2024-02-09 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2024-02-22 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-02-26 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2024-03-26 Senate Tabled
• 2024-03-28 Senate Taken from Table
• 2024-03-28 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2024-03-28 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2024-04-02 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-05-02 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2024-05-02 Act 553 executive-signature
• 2024-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1284c9ce-5db8-47d4-ad1f-9458b0c15853. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).