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type: "Bill"
title: "Office of College and Career Transitions; change name to the Office of College and Career Academies"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 20-4-37 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the Office of College and Career Transitions and powers and duties, so as to change the name of the Office of College and Career Transitions to the Office of College and Career Academies; to provide for increased technical skills; to provide for collaboration between the Technical College System of Georgia and certain entities to support efforts to recruit new industries and expand existing industries; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2021_22"
identifier: "SB 81"
citation: "Georgia SB 81 (2021_22)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Billy Hickman", "Burt Jones", "Butch Miller", "Chuck Payne", "Chuck Hufstetler", "Ed Harbison", "Elena Parent", "Frank Ginn", "Freddie Powell Sims", "Jeff Mullis", "John Kennedy", "Larry Walker, III", "Lester Jackson", "Matt Brass", "Mike Dugan", "Nikki Merritt", "Russ Goodman", "Steve Gooch", "Tonya Anderson", "Tyler Harper"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 16
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-02-02"
last_action: "2021-05-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d656de60-c311-4445-a34a-c4e7e79f2bb7"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "d351fb6a1b586a04dc9cf60a13eaf50dc8654f7401281144a478591c5cbb92f5"
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 81 (2021_22) — Office of College and Career Transitions; change name to the Office of College and Career Academies
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 20-4-37 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the Office of College and Career Transitions and powers and duties, so as to change the name of the Office of College and Career Transitions to the Office of College and Career Academies; to provide for increased technical skills; to provide for collaboration between the Technical College System of Georgia and certain entities to support efforts to recruit new industries and expand existing industries; to provide for related matters; 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 0381** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/196555.pdf)
2. **As passed Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/197862.pdf)
3. **LC 49 0561S/hrcs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/201925.pdf)
4. **SB 81/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/202128.pdf)
## Votes
- PASSAGE — **51–0** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Billy Hickman — primary (person)
- Burt Jones — primary (person)
- Butch Miller — primary (person)
- Chuck Payne — primary (person)
- Chuck Hufstetler — primary (person)
- Ed Harbison — primary (person)
- Elena Parent — primary (person)
- Frank Ginn — primary (person)
- Freddie Powell Sims — primary (person)
- Jeff Mullis — primary (person)
- John Kennedy — primary (person)
- Larry Walker, III — primary (person)
- Lester Jackson — primary (person)
- Matt Brass — primary (person)
- Mike Dugan — primary (person)
- Nikki Merritt — primary (person)
- Russ Goodman — primary (person)
- Steve Gooch — primary (person)
- Tonya Anderson — primary (person)
- Tyler Harper — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-02-02** Senate Hopper
- **2021-02-03** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-10** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-11** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2021-02-17** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2021-02-17** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2021-02-18** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2021-02-22** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2021-03-25** House Committee Favorably Reported `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
- **2021-04-07** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2021-05-06** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2021-05-06** Act 252 `executive-signature`
- **2021-05-06** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d656de60-c311-4445-a34a-c4e7e79f2bb7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).