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type: "Bill"
title: "General appropriations; State Fiscal Year July 1, 2025 - June 30, 2026"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to make and provide appropriations for the State Fiscal Year beginning July 1, 2025, and ending June 30, 2026; to make and provide such appropriations for the operation of the state government and its departments, boards, bureaus, commissions, institutions, and other agencies, for the university system, common schools, counties, municipalities, and political subdivisions, for all other governmental activities, projects, and undertakings authorized by law, and for all leases, contracts, agreements, and grants authorized by law; to provide for the control and administration of funds; to provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2025_26"
identifier: "HB 68"
citation: "Georgia HB 68 (2025_26)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["GENERAL ASSEMBLY"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chuck Efstration", "Jan Jones", "Jon Burns", "Matt Hatchett"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 23
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-01-16"
last_action: "2025-05-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8d76dd64-473e-44e7-b6a9-028247451e35"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "bf5afe9f1155f2182eb0a5c80cb409cab7e2a2bf2c1db2aa8687bdf88e5e7d76"
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 68 (2025_26) — General appropriations; State Fiscal Year July 1, 2025 - June 30, 2026
A BILL to be entitled an Act to make and provide appropriations for the State Fiscal Year beginning July 1, 2025, and ending June 30, 2026; to make and provide such appropriations for the operation of the state government and its departments, boards, bureaus, commissions, institutions, and other agencies, for the university system, common schools, counties, municipalities, and political subdivisions, for all other governmental activities, projects, and undertakings authorized by law, and for all leases, contracts, agreements, and grants authorized by law; to provide for the control and administration of funds; to provide 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. **LC 33 9757/db** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/230017.pdf)
## Votes
- Senate Vote #456 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — **54–1** (pass) · upper
- House Vote #272 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — **171–4** (pass) · lower
- House Vote #420 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — **170–5** (pass) · lower
- Senate Vote #316 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — **48–7** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Chuck Efstration — primary (person)
- Jan Jones — primary (person)
- Jon Burns — primary (person)
- Matt Hatchett — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-01-16** House Hopper `introduction`
- **2025-01-17** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2025-01-27** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2025-03-10** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-11** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2025-03-11** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2025-03-11** House Immediately Transmitted to Senate
- **2025-03-11** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-27** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-27** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-28** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2025-03-28** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2025-03-31** House Disagreed Senate Amend or Sub
- **2025-03-31** Senate Insisted
- **2025-03-31** House Insisted
- **2025-03-31** House Conference Committee Appointed 47th, 104th, 155th
- **2025-03-31** Senate Conference Committee Appointed 18th, 51st, 19th
- **2025-04-04** Senate Conference Committee Report Adopted
- **2025-04-04** House Conference Committee Report Adopted
- **2025-04-08** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-09** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-09** Act 73 `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-09** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8d76dd64-473e-44e7-b6a9-028247451e35`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).