republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2025-26/hb-150.md

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Bill	Combating Threats from China Act of 2025 - Higher Education; enact	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 2 of Article 2 of Chapter 3 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the university system, so as to require quarterly reports regarding certain funding received from individuals or entities related to China; to provide for definitions; to provide for related matters; to provide for a short title; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2025_26	HB 150	Georgia HB 150 (2025_26)	bill	EDUCATION	enacted	Carter Barrett Houston Gaines Kasey Carpenter Katie Dempsey Mitchell Scoggins Tim Fleming	7	16	4	2025-01-28	2025-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/6a13e213-db4d-45d8-bb82-216c26e2a86b	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	3622416c4264dd2d8c78ea5d5a0c9082b075329306affa672301dea36a335d8b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 150 (2025_26) — Combating Threats from China Act of 2025 - Higher Education; enact

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 2 of Article 2 of Chapter 3 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the university system, so as to require quarterly reports regarding certain funding received from individuals or entities related to China; to provide for definitions; to provide for related matters; to provide for a short title; 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 150/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 61 0049/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 61 0154S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 61 0154S/hs (committee substitute) — source
5. SCSFA to HB 150 (committee substitute) — source
6. Sen Ctee sub LC 61 0232S (committee substitute) — source
7. Sen Floor Amend 1 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate Vote #345 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 32–19 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #409 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 98–64 (pass) · lower
• House Vote #203 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 145–22 (pass) · lower
• Senate Vote #344 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 32–21 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Carter Barrett — primary (person)
• Houston Gaines — primary (person)
• Kasey Carpenter — primary (person)
• Katie Dempsey — primary (person)
• Mitchell Scoggins — primary (person)
• Tim Fleming — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-28 House Hopper introduction
• 2025-01-29 House First Readers reading-1
• 2025-01-30 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2025-02-20 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-06 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2025-03-06 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2025-03-10 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2025-03-27 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-27 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2025-03-31 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2025-03-31 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2025-04-04 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
• 2025-04-09 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-05-12 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2025-05-12 Act 127 executive-signature
• 2025-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6a13e213-db4d-45d8-bb82-216c26e2a86b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).