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Georgia General Assembly · SB 179 · Senate Date Signed by Governor (Act 625)

Education; the academic and disciplinary records of each transferring student shall be provided within five days; require

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Officially: “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... Read the full text

2025-2026 regular session

What it does

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
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Where it is

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Senate Hopper · Feb 13, 2025
Senate Read and Referred · Feb 18, 2025
Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute · Mar 3, 2025
Senate Read Second Time · Mar 4, 2025
Senate Third Read · Mar 6, 2025
Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute · Mar 6, 2025
House First Readers · Mar 10, 2025
House Second Readers · Mar 11, 2025
House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute · Apr 2, 2025
House Third Readers · Apr 4, 2025
House Passed/Adopted By Substitute · Apr 4, 2025
Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub As Amended · Mar 9, 2026
House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub · Mar 23, 2026
Senate Sent to Governor · Apr 10, 2026
Senate Date Signed by Governor · May 12, 2026
Act 625 · May 12, 2026
Effective Date · Jul 1, 2026

The numbers

10
sponsors on the bill

Sponsors

Dixon, ClintGooch, SteveCowsert, BillKennedy, John F.Ginn, FrankGoodman, RussHickman, BillyMangham, RandalHufstetler, ChuckBallard, Bethany

Recorded votes

Agree to Senate Amendment to House SubHouse · 2026-03-23 · yea 99, nay 66, notVoting 9, excused 6
AGREE TO HOUSE SUBSTITUTE AS AMENDEDSenate · 2026-03-09 · yea 48, nay 3, notVoting 2, excused 3
PASSAGEHouse · 2025-04-04 · yea 169, nay 0, notVoting 4, excused 7
PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTESenate · 2025-03-06 · yea 54, nay 1, notVoting 0, excused 1
Roll-call results shown verbatim from the Georgia legislature’s records. A result reflects that roll call’s own motion, not the bill’s overall outcome.
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