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type: "Bill"
title: "Special needs students; waiver of one of the scholarship requirements under certain conditions; provide"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 33 of Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the scholarship program for special needs students, so as to provide for the waiver of one of the scholarship requirements under certain conditions; to provide deadlines for scholarship payments to parents; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2013_14"
identifier: "HB 70"
citation: "Georgia HB 70 (2013_14)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brooks Coleman", "Ed Setzler", "Edward Lindsey", "Margaret Kaiser", "Mike Dudgeon", "Rich Golick"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 17
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2013-01-16"
last_action: "2013-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/95c6428b-1b66-4425-bbd0-fc5f49cd9fb9"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "d0387f9557820dadc80079a75a3c60935070cfc70641784c3665a18b8d42e495"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ga"]
---
# Georgia HB 70 (2013_14) — Special needs students; waiver of one of the scholarship requirements under certain conditions; provide
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 33 of Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the scholarship program for special needs students, so as to provide for the waiver of one of the scholarship requirements under certain conditions; to provide deadlines for scholarship payments to parents; 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. **HB 70/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/136916.pdf)
2. **LC 33 4875/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/128416.pdf)
3. **LC 33 5079S/hcs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/132241.pdf)
4. **LC 33 5079S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/131401.pdf)
5. **Sen ctee sub LC 33 5217S** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/135346.pdf)
6. **Sen floor amend 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/135993.pdf)
## Votes
- PASSAGE — **1650** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Brooks Coleman — primary (person)
- Ed Setzler — primary (person)
- Edward Lindsey — primary (person)
- Margaret Kaiser — primary (person)
- Mike Dudgeon — primary (person)
- Rich Golick — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2013-01-16** House Hopper
- **2013-01-17** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2013-01-28** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2013-01-30** House Withdrawn, Recommitted `referral-committee, withdrawal`
- **2013-02-20** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2013-02-25** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2013-02-25** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2013-02-26** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2013-03-22** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2013-03-22** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2013-03-26** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2013-03-26** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2013-03-28** House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
- **2013-04-04** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2013-05-06** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2013-05-06** Act 237 `executive-signature`
- **2013-07-01** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/95c6428b-1b66-4425-bbd0-fc5f49cd9fb9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).