republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/hb-659.md

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Bill	Education; provide transparency of financial information of local school systems and schools; provisions	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 14 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to education accountability assessment programs, so as to provide transparency of financial information of local school systems and schools, to the greatest extent practicable; to provide for legislative intent; to provide for definitions; to provide for accessibility to certain financial data of a local board of education; to provide for school level budget and expenditure data; to require local school systems and schools to provide certain information on their websites; to provide for certain data and reports; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	HB 659	Georgia HB 659 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Dave Belton Jay Powell Michael Caldwell Mike Dudgeon Mike Glanton Randy Nix	11	16	1	2015-03-24	2016-05-03	openstates	ocd-bill/7c6e573e-ab6a-4ffa-811e-19c25d1d9f43	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	19f789fcb11a7954774c4dc08c86b0de77cb52eab8a94187b8eee8629c265e59	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 659 (2015_16) — Education; provide transparency of financial information of local school systems and schools; provisions

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 14 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to education accountability assessment programs, so as to provide transparency of financial information of local school systems and schools, to the greatest extent practicable; to provide for legislative intent; to provide for definitions; to provide for accessibility to certain financial data of a local board of education; to provide for school level budget and expenditure data; to require local school systems and schools to provide certain information on their websites; to provide for certain data and reports; 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. Floor Amendment AM 33 1666 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB 659/AP* (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 33 6172/a (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 33 6398S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
5. LC 33 6398S/hs (committee substitute) — source
6. SCSFA to HB659 (committee substitute) — source
7. Sen Floor AM 2 (committee substitute) — source
8. Sen ctee sub LC 33 6618S (committee substitute) — source
9. Sen floor amend 1 AM 25 1382 (committee substitute) — source
10. Sen floor amend 3 AM 33 1636 (committee substitute) — source
11. Sen floor amend 4 AM 33 1637 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 162–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Dave Belton — primary (person)
• Jay Powell — primary (person)
• Michael Caldwell — primary (person)
• Mike Dudgeon — primary (person)
• Mike Glanton — primary (person)
• Randy Nix — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-03-24 House Hopper
• 2015-03-25 House First Readers reading-1
• 2015-03-26 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2016-02-04 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-02-10 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2016-02-10 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2016-02-11 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2016-03-14 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-03-14 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2016-03-22 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2016-03-22 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2016-03-24 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub As Amended
• 2016-03-24 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2016-04-04 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2016-05-03 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2016-05-03 Veto V6 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7c6e573e-ab6a-4ffa-811e-19c25d1d9f43. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).