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type: "Bill"
title: "Seminole County; Board of Education; provide nonpartisan elections"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act creating the Board of Education of Seminole County, approved March 14, 1983 (Ga. L. 1983, p. 3994), as amended, so as to provide that future elections for members of the board of education shall be nonpartisan; 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 73"
citation: "Georgia HB 73 (2025_26)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gerald Greene"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-16"
last_action: "2025-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/47e4fa6f-a853-41ed-bd3a-151be12f4a90"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "7fa69a4afc3b49e8b704e8e4aa6249cf67dddf04f2fb2cfd9dd00ed51242a09e"
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 73 (2025_26) — Seminole County; Board of Education; provide nonpartisan elections
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act creating the Board of Education of Seminole County, approved March 14, 1983 (Ga. L. 1983, p. 3994), as amended, so as to provide that future elections for members of the board of education shall be nonpartisan; 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 73/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/234433.pdf)
2. **LC 47 3148/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/230059.pdf)
3. **Local Ad** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/230073.pdf)
## Votes
- Senate Vote #98 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — **48–0** (pass) · upper
- House Vote #53 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — **138–29** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Gerald Greene — 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`
- **2025-02-04** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-20** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2025-02-20** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2025-02-21** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-27** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-27** 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 196 `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-13** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/47e4fa6f-a853-41ed-bd3a-151be12f4a90`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).