2025-2026 Regular Session

SB128

Quality Basic Education Act; grants to eligible local units of administration for students living in poverty; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 6 of Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the "Quality Basic Education Act," so as to provide for grants to eligible local units of administration for students living in poverty; to provide for definitions; to provide for the calculation of grant amounts; to provide that a minimum required portion of grant funds be used by local units of administration for direct program expenditures for the benefit of students living in poverty; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

Current disposition: Pending: Senate Education and Youth
Last status date: February 11, 2025
Last status update: Senate Read and Referred
Pending committee: Education and Youth
Author: Jason Esteves
Co-sponsors: Harold Jones Kim Jackson Elena Parent Sonya Halpern Nan Orrock Derek Mallow RaShaun Kemp Ed Harbison Kenya WicksNabilah Islam ParkesDonzella James Gail Davenport Freddie Sims Tonya Anderson Randal Mangham Sally Harrell Nikki Merritt Michael Rhett

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Committee referrals

February 11, 2025 · Senate

Education and Youth

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.

February 11, 2025
Senate Senate Read and Referred
February 10, 2025
Senate Senate Hopper

Source provenance

LegiScan bill ID: 1964653
LegiScan session ID: 2167
Source file: var/states/georgia/source/legiscan/2167-841ad2a0e705/bill/SB128.json
Package observed: 2026-07-17T02:17:01+00:00