republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2025-26/sb-193.md

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Bill	State Board of the Technical College System of Georgia; establish the adult workforce high school diploma program; authorize	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 4 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to vocational, technical, and adult education, so as to authorize the State Board of the Technical College System of Georgia to establish the adult workforce high school diploma program; to provide for the selection of third-party providers to administer the program; to provide requirements for approved program providers; to provide for disbursement of funds to approved program providers; to provide for reporting; to provide for definitions; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2025_26	SB 193	Georgia SB 193 (2025_26)	bill	EDUCATION	enacted	Bo Hatchett Brandon Beach Brian Strickland Ed Harbison John Albers Matt Brass Randy Robertson	5	16	3	2025-02-18	2025-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/1e885c56-7119-483e-99f7-f995f2837681	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	a50adb1c2eaf8bc5d2ad3a20259b04c50949efe6c169a0d1ff46d2427e9ee2de	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 193 (2025_26) — State Board of the Technical College System of Georgia; establish the adult workforce high school diploma program; authorize

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 4 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to vocational, technical, and adult education, so as to authorize the State Board of the Technical College System of Georgia to establish the adult workforce high school diploma program; to provide for the selection of third-party providers to administer the program; to provide requirements for approved program providers; to provide for disbursement of funds to approved program providers; to provide for reporting; 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 61 0132 (committee substitute) — source
2. As Passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 61 0180S (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 61 0181S/hss (committee substitute) — source
5. SB 193/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate Vote #139 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 48–0 (pass) · upper
• Senate Vote #474 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 50–1 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #303 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 159–2 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bo Hatchett — primary (person)
• Brandon Beach — primary (person)
• Brian Strickland — primary (person)
• Ed Harbison — primary (person)
• John Albers — primary (person)
• Matt Brass — primary (person)
• Randy Robertson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-18 Senate Hopper introduction
• 2025-02-19 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2025-02-26 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute 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 By Substitute passage
• 2025-03-06 House First Readers reading-1
• 2025-03-10 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2025-03-18 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-25 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2025-03-25 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2025-04-04 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2025-04-10 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-04-28 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2025-04-28 Act 20 executive-signature
• 2025-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1e885c56-7119-483e-99f7-f995f2837681. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).