republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2025-26/hb-1284.md

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Bill	Education; awarding of high school diplomas to high school students who are at the end of life; provide	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 3 of Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to local boards of education, so as to provide for the awarding of high school diplomas to high school students who are at the end of life; to provide for waivers; to provide for posthumous awarding of such diplomas; to provide for policies, rules, and regulations; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2025_26	HB 1284	Georgia HB 1284 (2025_26)	bill	EDUCATION	enacted	Butch Parrish Chris Erwin Deborah Silcox Jon Burns Sandy Donatucci Scott Hilton	4	16	3	2026-02-11	2026-05-05	openstates	ocd-bill/f1ac8414-42b4-43a3-91a4-b3ca881397fc	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	4083185df1213ee2749e552b4f971a4972dc0f05eb6b87e0da76351efc422ff0	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 1284 (2025_26) — Education; awarding of high school diplomas to high school students who are at the end of life; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 3 of Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to local boards of education, so as to provide for the awarding of high school diplomas to high school students who are at the end of life; to provide for waivers; to provide for posthumous awarding of such diplomas; to provide for policies, rules, and regulations; 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 1284/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 49 2612/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 49 2781S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 49 2781S/hs (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate Vote #854 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 48–0 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #606 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 172–0 (pass) · lower
• Senate Vote #835 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 26–22 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Butch Parrish — primary (person)
• Chris Erwin — primary (person)
• Deborah Silcox — primary (person)
• Jon Burns — primary (person)
• Sandy Donatucci — primary (person)
• Scott Hilton — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2026-02-11 House Hopper introduction
• 2026-02-12 House First Readers reading-1
• 2026-02-17 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2026-02-26 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-03-04 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2026-03-04 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2026-03-06 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2026-03-16 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-03-18 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2026-03-27 Senate Tabled
• 2026-03-27 Senate Taken from Table
• 2026-03-27 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2026-03-27 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 397 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f1ac8414-42b4-43a3-91a4-b3ca881397fc. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).