republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2023-24/sb-233.md

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Bill	'The Georgia Promise Scholarship Act'; establishment of promise scholarship accounts	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to education, so as to provide for the establishment of promise scholarship accounts to be funded by the state in the amount of $6,000.00 per school year for each participating student; to provide for definitions; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2023_24	SB 233	Georgia SB 233 (2023_24)	bill		enacted	Ben Watson Colton Moore Ed Setzler Greg Dolezal John F. Kennedy Matt Brass Shawn Still Steve Gooch	12	25	11	2023-02-22	2024-04-23	openstates	ocd-bill/5eb6437d-1458-4f34-9aeb-5838f06aa904	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	a89b884dec8d5992d3cdd2c506ec278cb31bdd30f196504d36f89e01e15cb35a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 233 (2023_24) — 'The Georgia Promise Scholarship Act'; establishment of promise scholarship accounts

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to education, so as to provide for the establishment of promise scholarship accounts to be funded by the state in the amount of $6,000.00 per school year for each participating student; to provide for definitions; 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 1349 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 49 1388S (committee substitute) — source
4. Floor amend 1 AM 49 0081 (committee substitute) — source
5. Floor amend 1A (committee substitute) — source
6. Floor amend 1B AM 49 0086 (committee substitute) — source
7. Floor amend 2 (committee substitute) — source
8. LC 33 9709S/hss (committee substitute) — source
9. LC 49 1450S/hss (committee substitute) — source
10. LC 49 1458S/hrcs (committee substitute) — source
11. LC 49 1473S/hrcs (committee substitute) — source
12. SB 233/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• House Vote #293 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 95–70 (pass) · lower
• House Vote #344 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 97–73 (pass) · lower
• Senate Vote #705 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 33–21 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #697 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 91–82 (pass) · lower
• House Vote #369 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 85–89 (fail) · lower
• House Vote #370 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 98–73 (pass) · lower
• Senate Vote #153 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 23–33 (fail) · upper
• House Vote #343 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 90–74 (pass) · lower
• Senate Vote #155 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 33–23 (pass) · upper
• Senate Vote #154 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 23–32 (fail) · upper
• Senate Vote #152 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 33–23 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ben Watson — primary (person)
• Colton Moore — primary (person)
• Ed Setzler — primary (person)
• Greg Dolezal — primary (person)
• John F. Kennedy — primary (person)
• Matt Brass — primary (person)
• Shawn Still — primary (person)
• Steve Gooch — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-22 Senate Hopper introduction
• 2023-02-23 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2023-03-01 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-03-02 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2023-03-06 Senate Tabled
• 2023-03-06 Senate Taken from Table
• 2023-03-06 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2023-03-06 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2023-03-07 House First Readers reading-1
• 2023-03-08 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2023-03-21 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-03-23 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2023-03-23 House Tabled
• 2023-03-29 House Taken from Table
• 2023-03-29 House Withdrawn, Recommitted referral-committee, withdrawal
• 2023-03-29 House Third Reading Lost failure, reading-3
• 2023-03-29 House Reconsidered
• 2023-03-29 House Withdrawn, Recommitted referral-committee, withdrawal
• 2024-03-13 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-14 House Passed/Adopted Reconsidered Bill/Resolution By Substitute
• 2024-03-20 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2024-04-02 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-04-23 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2024-04-23 Act 457 executive-signature
• 2024-04-23 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5eb6437d-1458-4f34-9aeb-5838f06aa904. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).