republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2025-26/hb-1379.md

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Bill	Foreign Funding Transparency and Accountability Act; enact	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to education, so as to require semiannual reports from institutions of the University System of Georgia, units of the Technical College System of Georgia, and local school systems and other public schools regarding funding received from foreign sources; to provide requirements for such reports; to provide for such reports to be made publicly available; to provide for definitions; to provide for related matters; to provide for a short title; to provide for effective dates; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2025_26	HB 1379	Georgia HB 1379 (2025_26)	bill	EDUCATION	enacted	Brent Cox Esther Panitch Houston Gaines John Carson Tim Fleming	4	14	2	2026-02-18	2026-05-12	openstates	ocd-bill/d74aeac2-453b-4c71-9418-67eb08230a34	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	da051278e6f13a63cf6f3a6b5f5cfff59429b211cae5848f51e9d99814d2a4c9	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 1379 (2025_26) — Foreign Funding Transparency and Accountability Act; enact

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to education, so as to require semiannual reports from institutions of the University System of Georgia, units of the Technical College System of Georgia, and local school systems and other public schools regarding funding received from foreign sources; to provide requirements for such reports; to provide for such reports to be made publicly available; to provide for definitions; to provide for related matters; to provide for a short title; to provide for effective dates; 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 1379/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 61 0319/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 61 0442S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 61 0442S/hs (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate Vote #737 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 31–20 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #648 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 139–16 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Brent Cox — primary (person)
• Esther Panitch — primary (person)
• Houston Gaines — primary (person)
• John Carson — primary (person)
• Tim Fleming — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2026-02-18 House Hopper introduction
• 2026-02-19 House First Readers reading-1
• 2026-02-20 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2026-03-03 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-03-04 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2026-03-04 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2026-03-06 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2026-03-12 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-03-16 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2026-03-18 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2026-03-18 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2026-04-06 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2026-05-12 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2026-05-12 Act 632 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d74aeac2-453b-4c71-9418-67eb08230a34. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).