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type: "Bill"
title: "Education; certain provisions relative to charter schools; revise"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to education, so as to revise certain provisions relative to charter schools; to provide that state charter schools may receive services from regional educational service agencies; to revise provisions relating to a code of principles and standards for charter school authorizers; to revise funding for state chartered special schools and state charter schools; to provide for initial funding for charter schools with projected student growth exceeding 2 percent; to provide for initial funding for training and experience; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2017_18"
identifier: "HB 787"
citation: "Georgia HB 787 (2017_18)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jan Jones", "Randy Nix", "Robert Dickey", "Scott Hilton", "Valencia Stovall"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 17
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2018-01-30"
last_action: "2018-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4a98aefe-d512-48a9-9fe0-07179d774054"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "21fbaa5f20d43e5048e4e116cae0db20d78022ab2dfde4490f4d24ede7d77e32"
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 787 (2017_18) — Education; certain provisions relative to charter schools; revise
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to education, so as to revise certain provisions relative to charter schools; to provide that state charter schools may receive services from regional educational service agencies; to revise provisions relating to a code of principles and standards for charter school authorizers; to revise funding for state chartered special schools and state charter schools; to provide for initial funding for charter schools with projected student growth exceeding 2 percent; to provide for initial funding for training and experience; 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.
## Votes
- PASSAGE — **11154** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Jan Jones — primary (person)
- Randy Nix — primary (person)
- Robert Dickey — primary (person)
- Scott Hilton — primary (person)
- Valencia Stovall — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-01-30** House Hopper
- **2018-01-31** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2018-02-01** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2018-02-15** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-22** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2018-02-22** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2018-02-23** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-23** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-23** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2018-03-27** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2018-03-27** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2018-03-29** House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub As Amended
- **2018-03-29** Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
- **2018-04-04** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2018-05-07** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-07** Act 425 `executive-signature`
- **2018-07-01** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4a98aefe-d512-48a9-9fe0-07179d774054`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).