republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2025-26/sb-85.md

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Bill	Grants for Foster Children; a grant program to provide grants to former foster youth who meet eligibility requirements, subject to specific appropriations; establish	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 12 of Chapter 3 of Title 20 of the O.C.G.A., relating to postsecondary education grants for foster children and adopted children, so as to establish a grant program to provide grants to former foster youth who meet eligibility requirements, subject to specific appropriations; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2025_26	SB 85	Georgia SB 85 (2025_26)	bill	EDUCATION MINORS	enacted	Blake Tillery Brandon Beach Ed Harbison Jason Anavitarte Jason Esteves John Albers Kenya Wicks Matt Brass Randy Robertson	5	15	3	2025-02-03	2025-05-12	openstates	ocd-bill/36b51b34-84e7-4a02-8886-ad0e59a943a8	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	c1cf2b53b663b810c55f713f949f371f4ca7782fda644931a6448750ba20bcd4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 85 (2025_26) — Grants for Foster Children; a grant program to provide grants to former foster youth who meet eligibility requirements, subject to specific appropriations; establish

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 12 of Chapter 3 of Title 20 of the O.C.G.A., relating to postsecondary education grants for foster children and adopted children, so as to establish a grant program to provide grants to former foster youth who meet eligibility requirements, subject to specific appropriations; 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 2128 (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 61 0145S (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 61 0231S/hss (committee substitute) — source
5. SB 85/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• House Vote #320 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 166–2 (pass) · lower
• Senate Vote #452 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 53–1 (pass) · upper
• Senate Vote #126 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 53–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Blake Tillery — primary (person)
• Brandon Beach — primary (person)
• Ed Harbison — primary (person)
• Jason Anavitarte — primary (person)
• Jason Esteves — primary (person)
• John Albers — primary (person)
• Kenya Wicks — primary (person)
• Matt Brass — primary (person)
• Randy Robertson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-03 Senate Hopper introduction
• 2025-02-04 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
• 2025-03-18 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
• 2025-05-12 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2025-05-12 Act 120 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/36b51b34-84e7-4a02-8886-ad0e59a943a8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).