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type: "Bill"
title: "Education; abolish Georgia Higher Education Assistance Corporation"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 7 of Chapter 3 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to scholarships, loans, and grants, so as to abolish the Georgia Higher Education Assistance Corporation; to provide for the transfer of outstanding obligations and liabilities and assets of such corporation; to amend Titles 2, 7, 12, 20, 26, 33, 43, and 48 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to agriculture, banking and finance, conservation and natural resources, education, food, drugs, and cosmetics, insurance, professions and businesses, and revenue and taxation, respectively, so as to remove cross-references and make conforming changes; 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: "2023_24"
identifier: "HB 319"
citation: "Georgia HB 319 (2023_24)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Charles Martin"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 17
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-02-08"
last_action: "2023-04-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c39e441a-08f5-49e0-b962-04ccd478c337"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "e8de4351a2bb9ff7526aa2a151bd29d091d385215758a0b812210a6eb9167e62"
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 319 (2023_24) — Education; abolish Georgia Higher Education Assistance Corporation
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 7 of Chapter 3 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to scholarships, loans, and grants, so as to abolish the Georgia Higher Education Assistance Corporation; to provide for the transfer of outstanding obligations and liabilities and assets of such corporation; to amend Titles 2, 7, 12, 20, 26, 33, 43, and 48 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to agriculture, banking and finance, conservation and natural resources, education, food, drugs, and cosmetics, insurance, professions and businesses, and revenue and taxation, respectively, so as to remove cross-references and make conforming changes; 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. **HB 319/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20232024/220409.pdf)
2. **LC 50 0479/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20232024/214077.pdf)
3. **Sen floor amend 1 AM 50 0045** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20232024/220048.pdf)
## Votes
- Senate Vote #341 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — **53–0** (pass) · upper
- House Vote #390 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — **160–1** (pass) · lower
- House Vote #74 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — **171–0** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Charles Martin — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-02-08** House Hopper `introduction`
- **2023-02-09** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2023-02-13** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2023-02-16** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-23** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2023-02-23** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2023-02-27** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-23** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-23** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2023-03-27** Senate Tabled
- **2023-03-29** Senate Taken from Table
- **2023-03-29** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2023-03-29** Senate Passed/Adopted As Amended `passage`
- **2023-03-29** House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
- **2023-03-30** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-04-04** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2023-04-04** Veto V1 `executive-veto`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c39e441a-08f5-49e0-b962-04ccd478c337`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).