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Bill Veterinarians; student loan repayment; who practice shelter medicine and in nonprofit pet sterilization clinics; provide; create the State Veterinary Education Board for Shelter Medicine and Pet Sterilization A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 7 of Chapter 3 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to scholarships, loans, and grants, so as to provide for student loan repayment for veterinarians who practice shelter medicine and veterinarians who practice in nonprofit pet sterilization clinics; to create the State Veterinary Education Board for Shelter Medicine and Pet Sterilization; to provide for definitions; to provide requirements for participation in the loan repayment program; to provide for maximum total and annual repayment amounts; to provide for terms for repayment agreements; to provide for rules and regulations; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes. us/states/ga Georgia General Assembly 2025_26 SB 20 Georgia SB 20 (2025_26)
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Carden Summers
Chuck Payne
Elena Parent
Kay Kirkpatrick
Lee Anderson
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Georgia SB 20 (2025_26) — Veterinarians; student loan repayment; who practice shelter medicine and in nonprofit pet sterilization clinics; provide; create the State Veterinary Education Board for Shelter Medicine and Pet Sterilization

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 7 of Chapter 3 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to scholarships, loans, and grants, so as to provide for student loan repayment for veterinarians who practice shelter medicine and veterinarians who practice in nonprofit pet sterilization clinics; to create the State Veterinary Education Board for Shelter Medicine and Pet Sterilization; to provide for definitions; to provide requirements for participation in the loan repayment program; to provide for maximum total and annual repayment amounts; to provide for terms for repayment agreements; to provide for rules and regulations; 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 Passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
  2. As introduced LC 61 0051 (committee substitute) — source
  3. Committee sub LC 61 0138S (committee substitute) — source
  4. LC 61 0266S/hrcs (committee substitute) — source
  5. SB 20/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • Senate Vote #116 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 542 (pass) · upper
  • House Vote #399 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 1605 (pass) · lower
  • Senate Vote #450 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 502 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • Carden Summers — primary (person)
  • Chuck Payne — primary (person)
  • Elena Parent — primary (person)
  • Kay Kirkpatrick — primary (person)
  • Lee Anderson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2025-01-16 Senate Hopper introduction
  • 2025-01-17 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
  • 2025-02-19 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
  • 2025-02-20 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
  • 2025-03-03 Senate Third Read reading-3
  • 2025-03-03 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
  • 2025-03-04 House First Readers reading-1
  • 2025-03-06 House Second Readers reading-2
  • 2025-03-20 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
  • 2025-04-02 House Withdrawn, Recommitted referral-committee, withdrawal
  • 2025-04-02 House Third Readers reading-3
  • 2025-04-02 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
  • 2025-04-04 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
  • 2025-04-10 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
  • 2025-05-14 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
  • 2025-05-14 Act 304 executive-signature
  • 2025-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/95b044e3-5f3b-4057-8636-ed2a99f56e16. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).