republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2025-26/sb-212.md

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Bill	"Quality Basic Education Act"; disclosure of public student directory information to political candidates or persons or groups acting on their behalf; prohibit	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 14 of Article 6 of Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the O.C.G.A., relating to other educational programs under the "Quality Basic Education Act," so as to prohibit the disclosure of public student directory information to political candidates, campaign committees, political action committees, political organizations, or persons or groups acting on their behalf; to amend Article 15 of Chapter 2 of Title 21 of the O.C.G.A., relating to miscellaneous offenses relative to elections and primaries; to amend Article 1 of Chapter 5 of Title 21 of the O.C.G.A., relating to general provisions for government transparency and campaign finance; to provide for related matters; to provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2025_26	SB 212	Georgia SB 212 (2025_26)	bill	EDUCATION	enacted	Billy Hickman John Albers Max Burns Mike Hodges Shawn Still	4	19	4	2025-02-19	2025-05-14	openstates	ocd-bill/ac954b9c-527e-4ac9-b27c-9e705c2313d8	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	41be9c5dac9fd13a3cbd653960ffae3cd5eecafbf7540cbf91d16f0692fbcf3c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 212 (2025_26) — "Quality Basic Education Act"; disclosure of public student directory information to political candidates or persons or groups acting on their behalf; prohibit

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 14 of Article 6 of Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the O.C.G.A., relating to other educational programs under the "Quality Basic Education Act," so as to prohibit the disclosure of public student directory information to political candidates, campaign committees, political action committees, political organizations, or persons or groups acting on their behalf; to amend Article 15 of Chapter 2 of Title 21 of the O.C.G.A., relating to miscellaneous offenses relative to elections and primaries; to amend Article 1 of Chapter 5 of Title 21 of the O.C.G.A., relating to general provisions for government transparency and campaign finance; to provide for related matters; to provide 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 47 9002 (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 47 3473S/hss (committee substitute) — source
4. SB 212/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate Vote #161 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 32–20 (pass) · upper
• Senate Vote #218 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 33–19 (pass) · upper
• Senate Vote #416 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 53–0 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #363 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 98–66 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Billy Hickman — primary (person)
• John Albers — primary (person)
• Max Burns — primary (person)
• Mike Hodges — primary (person)
• Shawn Still — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-19 Senate Hopper introduction
• 2025-02-20 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
• 2025-03-06 Senate Engrossed passage
• 2025-03-06 Senate Tabled
• 2025-03-06 Senate Taken from Table
• 2025-03-06 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2025-03-06 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2025-03-10 House First Readers reading-1
• 2025-03-11 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2025-03-25 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-31 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2025-03-31 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2025-04-02 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 313 executive-signature
• 2025-05-14 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ac954b9c-527e-4ac9-b27c-9e705c2313d8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).