--- title: HB 436. Education; repeal Chapter 2B, relating to promise scholarship accounts; provisions collection: bills id: 2025-2026/hb436 cite_as: HB 436, 2025-2026 Regular Session (Ga.) canonical_url: https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/hb436 md_url: https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/hb436.md text_url: https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/hb436/text source_url: https://www.legis.ga.gov/legislation/70295 date: 2025-02-18 status: introduced corpus_version: bills-2026-09-13 license: Public record of the Georgia General Assembly, via LegiScan; see about.md publisher: Georgia Commons, an independent project of Georgia Civic Data. Not the State of Georgia. Not legal advice. up: https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026.md previous: https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/hb435.md next: https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/hb437.md index: https://georgiacommons.org/bills/index.md omitted: votes and history omitted_chars: 129 omitted_url: https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/hb436.md?full=1 bill_number: HB 436 session: 2025-2026 Regular Session session_slug: 2025-2026 chamber: House bill_type: bill status_date: 2025-02-12 last_action: House Second Readers sponsors: - Floyd Griffin - Tanya Miller - Carolyn Hugley - Marvin Lim - Al Williams - Saira Draper text_version: Introduced has_text: true legiscan_url: https://legiscan.com/GA/bill/HB436/2025 upstream_id: 1968145 summaries_model: claude-sonnet-5 topic_tags: - school choice - promise scholarships - education funding - private school vouchers --- # HB 436. Education; repeal Chapter 2B, relating to promise scholarship accounts; provisions ## Text House Bill 436 By: Representatives Griffin of the 149th, Miller of the 62nd, Hugley of the 141st, Lim of the 98th, Williams of the 168th, and others A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT To amend Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to education, so as to repeal Chapter 2B, relating to promise scholarship accounts, including both Articles 1 and 2 of said chapter, relating to the Georgia Education Savings Authority and the "Georgia Promise Scholarship Act," respectively; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA: SECTION 1. Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to education, is amended by repealing Chapter 2B, relating to promise scholarship accounts. SECTION 2. All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed. ## Summaries written by Georgia Commons The following was written by claude-sonnet-5 from the text above and is not part of the bill. Quote the text, not the summary. A Georgia House bill would repeal the state's promise scholarship account program entirely, eliminating both the Georgia Education Savings Authority and the Georgia Promise Scholarship Act from state law. ### Plain-language summary Georgia currently has a law, Chapter 2B of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, that created promise scholarship accounts. That chapter has two parts: one establishing the Georgia Education Savings Authority, and one creating the Georgia Promise Scholarship Act, which lets eligible students use state funds toward private school tuition or other approved education expenses instead of attending their assigned public school. This bill would repeal Chapter 2B in full, removing both articles from Georgia law. It does not replace the program with anything else or lay out a transition plan for students already using promise scholarship accounts. The bill also repeals any other laws that conflict with this repeal, a standard clause in Georgia legislation. ### What it does - Repeals Chapter 2B of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, which governs promise scholarship accounts. - Eliminates Article 1 of that chapter, which established the Georgia Education Savings Authority. - Eliminates Article 2 of that chapter, known as the Georgia Promise Scholarship Act. - Repeals any other Georgia laws that conflict with this repeal. ### Who it affects Students and families currently enrolled in or eligible for Georgia's promise scholarship accounts, the Georgia Education Savings Authority that administers the program, private schools that accept promise scholarship funds, and the Georgia Department of Education, which oversees the broader scholarship framework. ### Why it matters If enacted, families relying on promise scholarship accounts to pay for private school tuition or other approved education expenses would lose access to that state funding source, and the state agency created to run the program would no longer have legal authority to operate. ### Key provisions - Section 1 repeals Chapter 2B of Title 20, removing both Article 1 (the Georgia Education Savings Authority) and Article 2 (the Georgia Promise Scholarship Act) from state law. - Section 2 repeals any other laws or parts of laws that conflict with this Act, a standard closing provision. ## Status - Status: Introduced (2025-02-12) - Last action: House Second Readers (2025-02-18) - Sponsors: Floyd Griffin, Tanya Miller, Carolyn Hugley, Marvin Lim, Al Williams, Saira Draper - Official page: https://www.legis.ga.gov/legislation/70295 > The history, votes, and amendments (129 characters) are at https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/hb436.md?full=1