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type: "Bill"
title: "Quality Basic Education Act; require certain schools that offer after-school programs to make such programs available to pre-kindergarten students"
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2025_26"
identifier: "HB 1123"
citation: "Georgia HB 1123 (2025_26)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["EDUCATION"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bethany Ballard", "Chris Erwin", "Jan Jones", "Sandy Donatucci", "Scott Hilton", "Sharon Cooper"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2026-02-02"
last_action: "2026-05-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2ff0e6bd-31e8-41a8-bd80-c0816cb85ebe"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "693a554235c7fc4aad8e33de89aa1899c0d935ce2956e7467149e7c62df4090e"
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 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](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/246701.pdf)
2. **LC 49 2546/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/241095.pdf)
## 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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2ff0e6bd-31e8-41a8-bd80-c0816cb85ebe`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).