republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2025-26/hb-1123.md

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Bill	Quality Basic Education Act; require certain schools that offer after-school programs to make such programs available to pre-kindergarten students	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 14 of Article 6 of Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to other educational programs under the "Quality Basic Education Act," so as to require certain schools that offer after-school programs to make such programs available to pre-kindergarten students on the same basis as the school's other students; to provide for limited waivers of such requirement; to provide for definitions; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2025_26	HB 1123	Georgia HB 1123 (2025_26)	bill	EDUCATION	enacted	Bethany Ballard Chris Erwin Jan Jones Sandy Donatucci Scott Hilton Sharon Cooper	2	14	2	2026-02-02	2026-05-05	openstates	ocd-bill/2ff0e6bd-31e8-41a8-bd80-c0816cb85ebe	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	693a554235c7fc4aad8e33de89aa1899c0d935ce2956e7467149e7c62df4090e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 1123 (2025_26) — Quality Basic Education Act; require certain schools that offer after-school programs to make such programs available to pre-kindergarten students

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 14 of Article 6 of Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to other educational programs under the "Quality Basic Education Act," so as to require certain schools that offer after-school programs to make such programs available to pre-kindergarten students on the same basis as the school's other students; to provide for limited waivers of such requirement; to provide for definitions; 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. HB 1123/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 49 2546/a (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate Vote #753 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 46–0 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #544 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 162–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bethany Ballard — primary (person)
• Chris Erwin — primary (person)
• Jan Jones — primary (person)
• Sandy Donatucci — primary (person)
• Scott Hilton — primary (person)
• Sharon Cooper — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2026-02-02 House Hopper introduction
• 2026-02-03 House First Readers reading-1
• 2026-02-04 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2026-02-20 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-02-24 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2026-02-24 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2026-02-25 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2026-03-12 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-03-16 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2026-03-19 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2026-03-19 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2026-04-06 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2026-05-05 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2026-05-05 Act 393 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2ff0e6bd-31e8-41a8-bd80-c0816cb85ebe. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).