republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2025-26/sb-82.md

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Bill	"Local Charter School Authorization and Support Act of 2025"; enact	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 31 of Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, the "Charter Schools Act of 1998," so as to enact the "Local Charter School Authorization and Support Act of 2025"; to provide for local boards of education to reconsider the denial of local charter school petitions; to require the Office of Charter School Compliance to prepare guidelines for local boards of education for the evaluation of charter school petitions; to revise reporting; to provide for related matters; to provide for legislative findings and intent; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2025_26	SB 82	Georgia SB 82 (2025_26)	bill	EDUCATION	enacted	Bo Hatchett Chuck Payne Clint Dixon Jason Anavitarte Matt Brass Shawn Still Steve Gooch	5	16	3	2025-02-03	2025-04-28	openstates	ocd-bill/26bc62aa-283a-4405-a33a-a625b068e54e	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	4099be49a16eb5948d0fd87f38510cf9ce45a9f25b921df5e661d1dbaf4e0580	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 82 (2025_26) — "Local Charter School Authorization and Support Act of 2025"; enact

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 31 of Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, the "Charter Schools Act of 1998," so as to enact the "Local Charter School Authorization and Support Act of 2025"; to provide for local boards of education to reconsider the denial of local charter school petitions; to require the Office of Charter School Compliance to prepare guidelines for local boards of education for the evaluation of charter school petitions; to revise reporting; to provide for related matters; to provide for legislative findings and intent; to provide for 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. As Passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
2. As introduced LC 49 2153 (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 49 9003S (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 49 2367S/hss (committee substitute) — source
5. SB 82/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate Vote #194 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 44–9 (pass) · upper
• Senate Vote #479 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 44–10 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #352 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 107–62 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bo Hatchett — primary (person)
• Chuck Payne — primary (person)
• Clint Dixon — primary (person)
• Jason Anavitarte — primary (person)
• Matt Brass — primary (person)
• Shawn Still — primary (person)
• Steve Gooch — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-03 Senate Hopper introduction
• 2025-02-04 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
• 2025-03-21 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-31 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2025-03-31 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2025-04-04 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2025-04-10 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-04-28 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2025-04-28 Act 15 executive-signature
• 2025-04-28 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/26bc62aa-283a-4405-a33a-a625b068e54e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).