republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2025-26/hb-235.md

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Bill	Georgia Supporting Living Donor Educators Act; enact	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 1 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions relative to education, so as to require employers of school employees to provide leaves of absence for the donation of bone marrow and organs; to provide for standards and conditions for granting such leaves of absence; to provide for a penalty for noncompliance; to provide for definitions; to provide for a short title; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2025_26	HB 235	Georgia HB 235 (2025_26)	bill	EDUCATION HEALTH	enacted	Alan Powell Lynn Heffner Mark Newton Mitchell Horner Rick Townsend Todd Jones	4	17	2	2025-02-04	2025-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/fc559390-43d9-453f-ace8-59ab6fbb1b4b	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	882cf95848c7de454dada44fbc272e56e66a4af112164230d3d6fa34ca0e4554	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 235 (2025_26) — Georgia Supporting Living Donor Educators Act; enact

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 1 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions relative to education, so as to require employers of school employees to provide leaves of absence for the donation of bone marrow and organs; to provide for standards and conditions for granting such leaves of absence; to provide for a penalty for noncompliance; to provide for definitions; to provide for a short title; 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. HB 235/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 39 4535/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 49 2305S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 49 2305S/hs (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• House Vote #168 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 173–0 (pass) · lower
• Senate Vote #459 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 54–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Alan Powell — primary (person)
• Lynn Heffner — primary (person)
• Mark Newton — primary (person)
• Mitchell Horner — primary (person)
• Rick Townsend — primary (person)
• Todd Jones — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-04 House Hopper introduction
• 2025-02-05 House First Readers reading-1
• 2025-02-06 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2025-02-28 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-04 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2025-03-04 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2025-03-06 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2025-03-13 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-18 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2025-04-02 Senate Tabled
• 2025-04-04 Senate Taken from Table
• 2025-04-04 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2025-04-04 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2025-04-09 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-04-28 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2025-04-28 Act 14 executive-signature
• 2025-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/fc559390-43d9-453f-ace8-59ab6fbb1b4b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).