republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2025-26/sb-179.md

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Bill	Education; the academic and disciplinary records of each transferring student shall be provided within five days; require	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to elementary and secondary education, so as to require that the academic and disciplinary records of each transferring student shall be provided by such student's previous school to the receiving school within five days; to reduce the number of days by which a parent or guardian of a transferring student shall receive copies of such records;to provide for evidence based youth violence prevention training programs; to provide for student violence prevention clubs; to provide for local policies for anonymous reporting; to provide for definitions; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date and applicability; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2025_26	SB 179	Georgia SB 179 (2025_26)	bill	EDUCATION MINORS	enacted	Bill Cowsert Billy Hickman Chuck Hufstetler Clint Dixon Frank Ginn John F. Kennedy Randal Mangham Russ Goodman Steve Gooch	7	17	4	2025-02-13	2026-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/cea2d51a-8697-4097-b75e-456615d422b6	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	701c41d5b2838dc929c60e346ad13f833611a2c57e8fef3c18a2c1216e613d88	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 179 (2025_26) — Education; the academic and disciplinary records of each transferring student shall be provided within five days; require

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to elementary and secondary education, so as to require that the academic and disciplinary records of each transferring student shall be provided by such student's previous school to the receiving school within five days; to reduce the number of days by which a parent or guardian of a transferring student shall receive copies of such records;to provide for evidence based youth violence prevention training programs; to provide for student violence prevention clubs; to provide for local policies for anonymous reporting; to provide for definitions; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date and applicability; 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. As Passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
2. As introduced LC 49 2223 (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 49 2318S (committee substitute) — source
4. Floor Amend 1 AM 49 0243 (committee substitute) — source
5. LC 49 2411S/hss (committee substitute) — source
6. SB 179/AP* (committee substitute) — source
7. Sen Floor Amend 1 AM 62 0050 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• House Vote #430 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 169–0 (pass) · lower
• House Vote #741 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 99–66 (pass) · lower
• Senate Vote #693 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 48–3 (pass) · upper
• Senate Vote #165 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 54–1 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bill Cowsert — primary (person)
• Billy Hickman — primary (person)
• Chuck Hufstetler — primary (person)
• Clint Dixon — primary (person)
• Frank Ginn — primary (person)
• John F. Kennedy — primary (person)
• Randal Mangham — primary (person)
• Russ Goodman — primary (person)
• Steve Gooch — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-13 Senate Hopper introduction
• 2025-02-18 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2025-03-03 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-04 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2025-03-06 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2025-03-06 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2025-03-10 House First Readers reading-1
• 2025-03-11 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2025-04-02 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-04 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2025-04-04 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2026-03-09 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub As Amended
• 2026-03-23 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
• 2026-04-10 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2026-05-12 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2026-05-12 Act 625 executive-signature
• 2026-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/cea2d51a-8697-4097-b75e-456615d422b6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).