republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2025-26/sb-472.md

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Bill	Local Boards of Education; audit findings or findings by the state auditor of financial mismanagement or misconduct; provide for the suspension of members	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, rebating to elementary and secondary education, so as to provide for the suspension of members of local boards of education following certain audit findings or findings by the state auditor of financial mismanagement or misconduct; to provide for a cap on the total amount of advance distributions of state allotted funds that may be made by the State Board of Education to local units of administration; to provide for intervention plans; to provide for the authority of the state auditor relative to such intervention plans; to provide for an effective date; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2025_26	SB 472	Georgia SB 472 (2025_26)	bill	EDUCATION MINORS	enacted	Billy Hickman Blake Tillery Carden Summers Chuck Hufstetler Freddie Powell Sims Larry Walker, III Max Burns	5	16	3	2026-02-06	2026-05-12	openstates	ocd-bill/76889c86-dc90-484f-9c29-1186eafc0df1	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	23f4d44f5e27d67a8bb070585061ce1e8a4157c23c58a0fb47d7facd6ef3ee17	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 472 (2025_26) — Local Boards of Education; audit findings or findings by the state auditor of financial mismanagement or misconduct; provide for the suspension of members

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, rebating to elementary and secondary education, so as to provide for the suspension of members of local boards of education following certain audit findings or findings by the state auditor of financial mismanagement or misconduct; to provide for a cap on the total amount of advance distributions of state allotted funds that may be made by the State Board of Education to local units of administration; to provide for intervention plans; to provide for the authority of the state auditor relative to such intervention plans; to provide for an effective date; 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 2509 (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee Sub LC 49 2704S (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 49 2813S/hss (committee substitute) — source
5. SB 472/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate Vote #841 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 29–17 (pass) · upper
• Senate Vote #594 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 40–8 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #768 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 96–58 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Billy Hickman — primary (person)
• Blake Tillery — primary (person)
• Carden Summers — primary (person)
• Chuck Hufstetler — primary (person)
• Freddie Powell Sims — primary (person)
• Larry Walker, III — primary (person)
• Max Burns — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2026-02-06 Senate Hopper introduction
• 2026-02-09 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2026-02-20 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-02-24 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2026-02-26 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2026-02-26 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2026-03-03 House First Readers reading-1
• 2026-03-04 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2026-03-25 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-03-25 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2026-03-25 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2026-03-27 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2026-04-10 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2026-05-12 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2026-05-12 Act 722 executive-signature
• 2026-05-12 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/76889c86-dc90-484f-9c29-1186eafc0df1. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).