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Bill	"Quality Basic Education Act"; local school systems offer certain exams to home study students; require	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 15 of Article 6 of Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to miscellaneous provisions under the "Quality Basic Education Act," so as to require that local school systems offer certain exams to home study students; to provide for notice requirements; to prohibit additional qualifications; to provide a definition; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2025_26	SB 63	Georgia SB 63 (2025_26)	bill	EDUCATION MINORS	enacted	Billy Hickman Bo Hatchett Clint Dixon Ed Setzler Greg Dolezal Jason Anavitarte Kim Jackson Lee Anderson Marty Harbin Max Burns Randy Robertson Rick Williams Russ Goodman Sam Watson Steve Gooch	5	16	3	2025-01-29	2025-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/ee9286a4-73f5-4384-bb20-66b7247ffabc	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	7abff47c81e0eaab4cbebb17c3e9db121334c190f5c3e269e6b603ebb02c60aa	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 63 (2025_26) — "Quality Basic Education Act"; local school systems offer certain exams to home study students; require

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 15 of Article 6 of Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to miscellaneous provisions under the "Quality Basic Education Act," so as to require that local school systems offer certain exams to home study students; to provide for notice requirements; to prohibit additional qualifications; to provide a definition; 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 0062 (committee substitute) — source
2. As Passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Floor Amend 1 AM 61 0004 (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 49 2368S/hss (committee substitute) — source
5. SB 63/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate Vote #152 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 53–0 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #319 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 166–0 (pass) · lower
• Senate Vote #448 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 51–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Billy Hickman — primary (person)
• Bo Hatchett — primary (person)
• Clint Dixon — primary (person)
• Ed Setzler — primary (person)
• Greg Dolezal — primary (person)
• Jason Anavitarte — primary (person)
• Kim Jackson — primary (person)
• Lee Anderson — primary (person)
• Marty Harbin — primary (person)
• Max Burns — primary (person)
• Randy Robertson — primary (person)
• Rick Williams — primary (person)
• Russ Goodman — primary (person)
• Sam Watson — primary (person)
• Steve Gooch — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-29 Senate Hopper introduction
• 2025-01-30 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2025-02-28 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-03 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2025-03-04 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2025-03-04 Senate Passed/Adopted As Amended passage
• 2025-03-06 House First Readers reading-1
• 2025-03-10 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2025-03-21 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-27 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2025-03-27 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 360 executive-signature
• 2025-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ee9286a4-73f5-4384-bb20-66b7247ffabc. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).