republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2025-26/hb-973.md

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Bill	Supplemental appropriations; State Fiscal Year July 1, 2025 - June 30, 2026	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act making and providing appropriations for the State Fiscal Year beginning July 1, 2025, and ending June 30, 2026, known as the "General Appropriations Act," Act No. 73, approved May 9, 2025, so as to make, provide, and change certain 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.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2025_26	HB 973	Georgia HB 973 (2025_26)	bill	GENERAL ASSEMBLY	enacted	Chuck Efstration Jan Jones Jon Burns Matt Hatchett	1	27	5	2026-01-15	2026-03-03	openstates	ocd-bill/f89107ae-9fdf-41a6-b78b-fe13dba12cb6	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	ff572c7a3235762d51a0257b4dc9d1bac14c31277201e212877069b6209db539	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 973 (2025_26) — Supplemental appropriations; State Fiscal Year July 1, 2025 - June 30, 2026

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act making and providing appropriations for the State Fiscal Year beginning July 1, 2025, and ending June 30, 2026, known as the "General Appropriations Act," Act No. 73, approved May 9, 2025, so as to make, provide, and change certain 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 9849/db (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate Vote #561 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 49–1 (pass) · upper
• Senate Vote #586 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 49–0 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #557 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 169–0 (pass) · lower
• House Vote #478 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 167–5 (pass) · lower
• Senate Vote #587 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 48–1 (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.

• 2026-01-15 House Hopper introduction
• 2026-01-15 House First Readers reading-1
• 2026-01-16 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2026-02-04 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-02-05 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2026-02-05 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2026-02-05 House Immediately Transmitted to Senate
• 2026-02-05 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2026-02-18 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-02-19 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2026-02-20 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2026-02-20 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2026-02-20 Senate Transmitted House
• 2026-02-20 House Disagreed Senate Amend or Sub
• 2026-02-20 House Immediately Transmitted to Senate
• 2026-02-20 Senate Insisted
• 2026-02-20 Senate Transmitted House
• 2026-02-20 House Conference Committee Appointed 155th, 47th, 104th
• 2026-02-20 House Insisted
• 2026-02-20 Senate Conference Committee Appointed 20th, 31st, 19th
• 2026-02-20 Senate Transmitted House
• 2026-02-25 House Conference Committee Report Adopted
• 2026-02-25 Senate Conference Committee Report Adopted
• 2026-02-25 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2026-03-03 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2026-03-03 Act 372 executive-signature
• 2026-03-03 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f89107ae-9fdf-41a6-b78b-fe13dba12cb6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).