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type: "Bill"
title: "Quality Basic Education; elective courses in History and Literature of the Old and New Testament Eras; provisions; revise"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 2 of Article 6 of Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to competencies and core curriculum relative to quality basic education, so as to revise provisions relating to elective courses in History and Literature of the Old and New Testament Eras; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2019_20"
identifier: "SB 83"
citation: "Georgia SB 83 (2019_20)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bill Heath", "Burt Jones", "Butch Miller", "Greg Kirk", "Jeff Mullis", "John Albers", "John Wilkinson", "Mike Dugan", "Steve Gooch", "Tyler Harper"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 16
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2019-02-08"
last_action: "2019-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/384c7268-e194-45ab-8a29-dce2dc1137ad"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "54c9954102044748e5a63cabf51fc6f157938cf1de3033a996f5ddf75ce9e5f7"
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 SB 83 (2019_20) — Quality Basic Education; elective courses in History and Literature of the Old and New Testament Eras; provisions; revise
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 2 of Article 6 of Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to competencies and core curriculum relative to quality basic education, so as to revise provisions relating to elective courses in History and Literature of the Old and New Testament Eras; 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. **As introduced LC 33 7598** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/180889.pdf)
2. **As passed Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/183601.pdf)
3. **Committee sub LC 33 7812S** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/183193.pdf)
4. **LC 33 7984S/hss** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/185524.pdf)
5. **SB 83/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/187418.pdf)
## Votes
- PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — **560** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Bill Heath — primary (person)
- Burt Jones — primary (person)
- Butch Miller — primary (person)
- Greg Kirk — primary (person)
- Jeff Mullis — primary (person)
- John Albers — primary (person)
- John Wilkinson — primary (person)
- Mike Dugan — primary (person)
- Steve Gooch — primary (person)
- Tyler Harper — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-02-08** Senate Hopper
- **2019-02-11** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-28** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-01** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2019-03-04** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2019-03-04** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2019-03-05** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2019-03-07** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2019-03-21** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-26** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2019-03-26** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2019-04-02** Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
- **2019-04-09** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-06** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-06** Act 229 `executive-signature`
- **2019-07-01** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/384c7268-e194-45ab-8a29-dce2dc1137ad`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).