republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2025-26/hb-175.md

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Bill	Education; employee comprehensive background checks for early care and education programs and Head Start programs; revise provisions	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 1A Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to early care and learning, so as to revise provisions regarding employee comprehensive background checks for early care and education programs and Head Start programs; to provide for definitions; to provide for revocation and nonissuance of licenses and commissions for early care and education programs; 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 175	Georgia HB 175 (2025_26)	bill	EDUCATION	enacted	Chris Erwin David Wilkerson Katie Dempsey Matt Dubnik Todd Jones	2	15	2	2025-01-29	2025-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/1b8c4133-5a49-4d00-8fef-86a0e42a69fb	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	6fa9544d7e18fb959980ddb51d4a1d0fbd12df161f16fd230cba494bd535bae7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 175 (2025_26) — Education; employee comprehensive background checks for early care and education programs and Head Start programs; revise provisions

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 1A Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to early care and learning, so as to revise provisions regarding employee comprehensive background checks for early care and education programs and Head Start programs; to provide for definitions; to provide for revocation and nonissuance of licenses and commissions for early care and education programs; 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 175/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 49 2064/a (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• House Vote #176 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 170–0 (pass) · lower
• Senate Vote #298 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 54–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Chris Erwin — primary (person)
• David Wilkerson — primary (person)
• Katie Dempsey — primary (person)
• Matt Dubnik — primary (person)
• Todd Jones — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-29 House Hopper introduction
• 2025-01-30 House First Readers reading-1
• 2025-02-03 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2025-02-28 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-04 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2025-03-04 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2025-03-06 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2025-03-13 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-18 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2025-03-27 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2025-03-27 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2025-04-07 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-05-13 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2025-05-13 Act 175 executive-signature
• 2025-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1b8c4133-5a49-4d00-8fef-86a0e42a69fb. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).