republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2025-26/sb-180.md

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Bill	High Demand Apprenticeship Program; opportunities for apprenticeship sponsors to enter into apprenticeship program contracts with State Board of the Technical College System of Georgia; provide	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 7 of Chapter 4 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the High Demand Apprenticeship Program, so as to provide opportunities for apprenticeship sponsors to enter into apprenticeship program contracts with the State Board of the Technical College System of Georgia; to provide for completion awards to apprenticeship sponsors for the successful completion of such contracts; 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	2025_26	SB 180	Georgia SB 180 (2025_26)	bill	EDUCATION	enacted	Bill Cowsert Clint Dixon Ed Setzler Jason Anavitarte Max Burns Rick Williams	3	15	2	2025-02-13	2025-04-28	openstates	ocd-bill/80967da8-6bd4-4cd6-addc-d01cda8e3d09	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	a50e6d599c56589fcf3a92fa56fa691adee9eb37a6b0c03662054427c8a9a848	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 180 (2025_26) — High Demand Apprenticeship Program; opportunities for apprenticeship sponsors to enter into apprenticeship program contracts with State Board of the Technical College System of Georgia; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 7 of Chapter 4 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the High Demand Apprenticeship Program, so as to provide opportunities for apprenticeship sponsors to enter into apprenticeship program contracts with the State Board of the Technical College System of Georgia; to provide for completion awards to apprenticeship sponsors for the successful completion of such contracts; 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 Passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
2. As introduced LC 49 2206 (committee substitute) — source
3. SB 180/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• House Vote #334 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 158–0 (pass) · lower
• Senate Vote #151 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 53–1 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bill Cowsert — primary (person)
• Clint Dixon — primary (person)
• Ed Setzler — primary (person)
• Jason Anavitarte — primary (person)
• Max Burns — primary (person)
• Rick Williams — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-13 Senate Hopper introduction
• 2025-02-18 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2025-02-26 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-02-27 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2025-03-04 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2025-03-04 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2025-03-06 House First Readers reading-1
• 2025-03-10 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2025-03-20 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-28 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2025-03-28 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2025-04-07 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-04-28 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2025-04-28 Act 19 executive-signature
• 2025-04-28 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/80967da8-6bd4-4cd6-addc-d01cda8e3d09. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).