republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2021-22/sb-220.md

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Bill	"The Georgia Civics Renewal Act"; enact	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 create the Georgia Commission on Civics Education; to provide for membership, filling of vacancies, terms, officers, duties, meetings, and reimbursement of members of the commission; to provide for a short title; to provide for legislative intent; to provide for automatic repeal; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2021_22	SB 220	Georgia SB 220 (2021_22)	bill		enacted	Bill Cowsert Billy Hickman Bo Hatchett Brian Strickland Bruce Thompson Butch Miller Carden Summers Chuck Payne Frank Ginn Jason Anavitarte Jeff Mullis John Albers John Kennedy Kay Kirkpatrick Larry Walker, III Lee Anderson Mike Dugan Steve Gooch	8	20	1	2021-02-22	2022-04-28	openstates	ocd-bill/6eac1289-d95c-4c59-8117-7961e960f754	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	625e82b5ceaea7aac67fa7684ab91818edec40254cd1039f4a156398066f60d2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 220 (2021_22) — "The Georgia Civics Renewal Act"; enact

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 create the Georgia Commission on Civics Education; to provide for membership, filling of vacancies, terms, officers, duties, meetings, and reimbursement of members of the commission; to provide for a short title; to provide for legislative intent; to provide for automatic repeal; to provide for an effective date; 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 0440 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 49 0463S (committee substitute) — source
4. Floor Amendment AM 49 0066 (committee substitute) — source
5. Floor amend 1 AM 49 0030 (committee substitute) — source
6. LC 49 0508S/hss (committee substitute) — source
7. LC 49 0551S/hrcs (committee substitute) — source
8. SB 220/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• MOTION TO TABLE ALL BILLS ON THE RULES CALENDAR — 32–17 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bill Cowsert — primary (person)
• Billy Hickman — primary (person)
• Bo Hatchett — primary (person)
• Brian Strickland — primary (person)
• Bruce Thompson — primary (person)
• Butch Miller — primary (person)
• Carden Summers — primary (person)
• Chuck Payne — primary (person)
• Frank Ginn — primary (person)
• Jason Anavitarte — primary (person)
• Jeff Mullis — primary (person)
• John Albers — primary (person)
• John Kennedy — primary (person)
• Kay Kirkpatrick — primary (person)
• Larry Walker, III — primary (person)
• Lee Anderson — primary (person)
• Mike Dugan — primary (person)
• Steve Gooch — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-22 Senate Hopper
• 2021-02-23 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2021-02-26 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-03-01 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
• 2021-03-15 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-03-29 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2021-03-29 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2021-03-31 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub As Amended
• 2022-04-04 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub As Amended
• 2022-04-04 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2022-04-07 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2022-04-28 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2022-04-28 Act 723 executive-signature
• 2022-04-28 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6eac1289-d95c-4c59-8117-7961e960f754. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).