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type: "Bill"
title: "Education; provide for positive behavioral interventions and supports and response to intervention initiatives"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to elementary and secondary education, so as to provide for positive behavioral interventions and supports and response to intervention initiatives; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2015_16"
identifier: "SB 164"
citation: "Georgia SB 164 (2015_16)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ed Harbison", "Emanuel Jones", "Gail Davenport", "Steve Henson", "Valencia Seay"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2015-02-23"
last_action: "2015-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fcfe164b-3ca1-44e2-9d3a-497d239f944b"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "5c2ceac13d23c85f371bec9c90c7f09982105a2d8258da6a28f35decce2f7386"
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 SB 164 (2015_16) — Education; provide for positive behavioral interventions and supports and response to intervention initiatives
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to elementary and secondary education, so as to provide for positive behavioral interventions and supports and response to intervention initiatives; 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 33 5781** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/149064.pdf)
2. **As passed Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/151044.pdf)
3. **SB 164/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/153961.pdf)
## Votes
- PASSAGE — **510** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Ed Harbison — primary (person)
- Emanuel Jones — primary (person)
- Gail Davenport — primary (person)
- Steve Henson — primary (person)
- Valencia Seay — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2015-02-23** Senate Hopper
- **2015-02-24** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-03** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-03-04** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2015-03-11** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2015-03-11** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2015-03-13** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2015-03-18** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2015-03-26** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-04-02** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2015-04-02** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2015-04-09** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2015-05-06** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2015-05-06** Act 183 `executive-signature`
- **2015-07-01** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fcfe164b-3ca1-44e2-9d3a-497d239f944b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).