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type: "Bill"
title: "\"Graduation Opportunities and Advanced Learning (GOAL) Act\"; enact"
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 provide for GOAL academies; to provide for definitions; to provide for partnerships to establish GOAL academies as charter schools; to provide for the transition of system-collaborative state charter schools to GOAL academies; to provide for funding and for the calculation thereof; to provide for designation; to provide for data collection; to provide for eligibility criteria, requirements, and procedures; to provide for a short title; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2021_22"
identifier: "SB 153"
citation: "Georgia SB 153 (2021_22)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blake Tillery", "Greg Dolezal"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 18
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-02-10"
last_action: "2021-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2c7c616e-b6ce-488b-be9b-0f676d83c359"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "76b84701be125d7572d3ec581370c27d3299d705bd58bb2c86f40291a1544684"
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 153 (2021_22) — "Graduation Opportunities and Advanced Learning (GOAL) Act"; enact
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to education, so as to provide for GOAL academies; to provide for definitions; to provide for partnerships to establish GOAL academies as charter schools; to provide for the transition of system-collaborative state charter schools to GOAL academies; to provide for funding and for the calculation thereof; to provide for designation; to provide for data collection; to provide for eligibility criteria, requirements, and procedures; to provide for a short title; 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 49 0405** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/197418.pdf)
2. **As passed Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/199708.pdf)
3. **Committee sub LC 49 0482S** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/199161.pdf)
4. **LC 49 0550S/hss** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/201436.pdf)
5. **SB 153/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/201787.pdf)
## Votes
- MOTION TO TABLE ALL BILLS ON THE RULES CALENDAR — **32–17** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Blake Tillery — primary (person)
- Greg Dolezal — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-02-10** Senate Hopper
- **2021-02-11** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-01** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-03** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2021-03-05** Senate Tabled
- **2021-03-05** Senate Taken from Table
- **2021-03-05** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2021-03-05** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2021-03-08** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2021-03-09** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2021-03-25** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-25** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2021-03-25** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2021-03-29** Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
- **2021-04-07** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2021-05-04** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2021-05-04** Act 156 `executive-signature`
- **2021-07-01** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2c7c616e-b6ce-488b-be9b-0f676d83c359`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).