republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2025-26/sb-431.md

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Bill	Education; enrollment of foster care students within two school days of a request for enrollment by such student's parent or legal custodian; require	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 20-2-670 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to disclosures and information required for permanent enrollment in a grade higher than third, provisional enrollment, and transfer of education records, so as to require the enrollment of foster care students within two school days of a request for enrollment by such student's parent or legal custodian; to provide for reporting noncompliance and for corrective action plans; to revise provisions relative to provisional enrollment; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2025_26	SB 431	Georgia SB 431 (2025_26)	bill	EDUCATION	enacted	Bo Hatchett Chuck Payne Elena Parent Kay Kirkpatrick Steve Gooch	4	16	3	2026-01-28	2026-05-11	openstates	ocd-bill/22469bbb-701e-4ca6-aacf-5add1b1e67a1	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	cedf28f0662b026015f94ef92cba54ea630fc930e9cb54f0d056d22ccf543a0e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 431 (2025_26) — Education; enrollment of foster care students within two school days of a request for enrollment by such student's parent or legal custodian; require

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 20-2-670 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to disclosures and information required for permanent enrollment in a grade higher than third, provisional enrollment, and transfer of education records, so as to require the enrollment of foster care students within two school days of a request for enrollment by such student's parent or legal custodian; to provide for reporting noncompliance and for corrective action plans; to revise provisions relative to provisional enrollment; 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 49 2569 (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 49 2837S/hss (committee substitute) — source
4. SB 431/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate Vote #944 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 51–0 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #825 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 168–0 (pass) · lower
• Senate Vote #525 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 49–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bo Hatchett — primary (person)
• Chuck Payne — primary (person)
• Elena Parent — primary (person)
• Kay Kirkpatrick — primary (person)
• Steve Gooch — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2026-01-28 Senate Hopper introduction
• 2026-01-29 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2026-02-04 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-02-05 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2026-02-06 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2026-02-06 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2026-02-09 House First Readers reading-1
• 2026-02-10 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2026-03-25 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-03-31 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2026-03-31 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2026-04-02 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2026-04-10 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2026-05-11 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2026-05-11 Act 494 executive-signature
• 2026-05-11 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/22469bbb-701e-4ca6-aacf-5add1b1e67a1. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).