republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2023-24/sb-497.md

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Bill	Education; High-demand Career Initiatives Program as the High Demand Apprenticeship Program; redesignate	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 4 of Title 20 of the O.C.G.A., relating to vocational, technical, and adult education, so as to redesignate the High-demand Career Initiatives Program as the High Demand Apprenticeship Program; to provide for definitions; to provide for rules and regulations; to provide for a repealer; to amend Code Section 20-2-161.4 of the O.C.G.A., relating to accessing HOPE scholarship funds for dual enrolled students and termination, so as to make a conforming change; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2023_24	SB 497	Georgia SB 497 (2023_24)	bill		enacted	Billy Hickman Brandon Beach Jason Esteves John Albers Sonya Halpern	5	17	3	2024-02-13	2024-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/888b7bd3-9b1d-45e4-be47-c4e8ae6507ad	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	e2871ef2897fe286ee7ae0fd399a10613b0396a71e2b0523dd951bb621117758	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 497 (2023_24) — Education; High-demand Career Initiatives Program as the High Demand Apprenticeship Program; redesignate

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 4 of Title 20 of the O.C.G.A., relating to vocational, technical, and adult education, so as to redesignate the High-demand Career Initiatives Program as the High Demand Apprenticeship Program; to provide for definitions; to provide for rules and regulations; to provide for a repealer; to amend Code Section 20-2-161.4 of the O.C.G.A., relating to accessing HOPE scholarship funds for dual enrolled students and termination, so as to make a conforming change; 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 1788 (committee substitute) — source
2. As Passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 49 1826S (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 49 1885S/hss (committee substitute) — source
5. SB 497/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate Vote #789 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 52–1 (pass) · upper
• Senate Vote #575 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 52–1 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #772 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 171–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Billy Hickman — primary (person)
• Brandon Beach — primary (person)
• Jason Esteves — primary (person)
• John Albers — primary (person)
• Sonya Halpern — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-02-13 Senate Hopper introduction
• 2024-02-15 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2024-02-22 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-02-26 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2024-02-27 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2024-02-27 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2024-02-29 House First Readers reading-1
• 2024-03-04 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2024-03-13 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-21 House Postponed
• 2024-03-26 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2024-03-26 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2024-03-26 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2024-04-02 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-05-02 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2024-05-02 Act 560 executive-signature
• 2024-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/888b7bd3-9b1d-45e4-be47-c4e8ae6507ad. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).