2025-2026 Regular Session

HB716

Georgia Student Finance Authority; establish a needs based grant program to combat food insecurity among postsecondary students

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 3 of Article 7 of Chapter 3 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the Georgia Student Finance Authority, so as to establish a needs based grant program to combat food insecurity among postsecondary students; to provide definitions; to provide for a maximum award amount; to provide for applications; to provide for rules, regulations, and procedures; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

Current disposition: Pending: House Higher Education
Last status date: March 6, 2025
Last status update: House Second Readers
Pending committee: Higher Education
Author: Bryce Berry
Co-sponsors: Kasey Carpenter Spencer Frye Samuel Park Gabriel Sanchez Eric Bell

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Committee referrals

March 4, 2025 · House

Higher Education

Instrument history

This is the complete recorded action history in the current source package. Highlighted entries are marked as significant by the source. A roll-call link appears only when a vote-like action has one unambiguous same-day chamber vote.

March 6, 2025
House House Second Readers
March 4, 2025
House House First Readers
March 3, 2025
House House Hopper

Source provenance

LegiScan bill ID: 1990345
LegiScan session ID: 2167
Source file: var/states/georgia/source/legiscan/2167-841ad2a0e705/bill/HB716.json
Package observed: 2026-07-17T02:17:01+00:00