republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2025-26/sb-44.md

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Bill	Equalization Grants, Annual Calculations, and Allocation; the definition of the term "qualified local school system" by reducing the minimum required millage rate; revise	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 20-2-165 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to equalization grants, annual calculations, and allocation, so as to revise the definition of the term "qualified local school system" by reducing the minimum required millage rate or effective millage rate from 14 mills to 10 mills; to provide for a 25 percent reduction of equalization grant awards for local school systems whose millage rate or effective millage rate does not meet the minimum requirement; to require annual reporting by the Department of Education; to repeal a definition; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2025_26	SB 44	Georgia SB 44 (2025_26)	bill	EDUCATION	enacted	Carden Summers Chuck Hufstetler Jason Anavitarte John F. Kennedy Russ Goodman Sam Watson	4	17	2	2025-01-28	2025-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/d365708d-1c69-46bc-8614-81933f084528	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	8b308f41e637ab5a1f22917bff47d16bcb62384e79514b38ae8df917822bf396	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 44 (2025_26) — Equalization Grants, Annual Calculations, and Allocation; the definition of the term "qualified local school system" by reducing the minimum required millage rate; revise

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 20-2-165 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to equalization grants, annual calculations, and allocation, so as to revise the definition of the term "qualified local school system" by reducing the minimum required millage rate or effective millage rate from 14 mills to 10 mills; to provide for a 25 percent reduction of equalization grant awards for local school systems whose millage rate or effective millage rate does not meet the minimum requirement; to require annual reporting by the Department of Education; to repeal a definition; 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 2099 (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee Sub LC 49 2224S (committee substitute) — source
4. SB 44/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate Vote #51 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 51–0 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #336 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 138–23 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Carden Summers — primary (person)
• Chuck Hufstetler — primary (person)
• Jason Anavitarte — primary (person)
• John F. Kennedy — primary (person)
• Russ Goodman — primary (person)
• Sam Watson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-28 Senate Hopper introduction
• 2025-01-29 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2025-02-05 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-02-06 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2025-02-10 Senate Recommitted referral-committee
• 2025-02-11 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-02-13 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2025-02-13 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2025-02-18 House First Readers reading-1
• 2025-02-19 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2025-03-18 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-28 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2025-03-28 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2025-04-07 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-05-14 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2025-05-14 Act 280 executive-signature
• 2025-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d365708d-1c69-46bc-8614-81933f084528. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).