--- title: SB 134. Education; repeal Chapter 2B, relating to promise scholarship accounts, including both Articles 1 and 2 of said chapter collection: bills id: 2025-2026/sb134 cite_as: SB 134, 2025-2026 Regular Session (Ga.) canonical_url: https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/sb134 md_url: https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/sb134.md text_url: https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/sb134/text source_url: https://www.legis.ga.gov/legislation/70091 date: 2025-02-11 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. 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Education; repeal Chapter 2B, relating to promise scholarship accounts, including both Articles 1 and 2 of said chapter ## Text Senate Bill 134 By: Senators Sims of the 12th, Jones II of the 22nd, Mallow of the 2nd, Harbison of the 15th, Lucas of the 26th 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, in its entirety. 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 All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.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 Senate 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 chapter of state law (Chapter 2B of Title 20) that set up promise scholarship accounts, made up of two parts: one creating the Georgia Education Savings Authority and another establishing the Georgia Promise Scholarship Act. Together these laws allow families to use state funds for education expenses outside traditional public schools. This bill would erase that entire chapter from Georgia law. Section 1 repeals Chapter 2B in its entirety, wiping out both the Authority that administers the accounts and the underlying Promise Scholarship Act that created them. Section 2 repeals any other laws that conflict with this change. The bill does not create a replacement program or specify an effective date beyond the standard process for a bill signed into law. ### What it does - Repeals Chapter 2B of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated in its entirety, eliminating the promise scholarship account system. - Eliminates the Georgia Education Savings Authority, the entity created under Article 1 of that chapter to run the accounts. - Eliminates the Georgia Promise Scholarship Act itself, the law under Article 2 that established the scholarship program. - Repeals any other Georgia laws that conflict with this repeal, clearing the way for the chapter's full removal. ### Who it affects Families who use or could use Georgia's promise scholarship accounts, the Georgia Education Savings Authority that administers the program, private and home schools that may receive funds through it, and public schools whose funding interacts with the scholarship program. ### Why it matters If enacted, families that rely on promise scholarship accounts to pay for private school or other education expenses would lose access to that funding source, since the agency and law authorizing the accounts would no longer exist under Georgia law. ### Key provisions - Section 1 repeals Chapter 2B of Title 20, which covers both Article 1 (the Georgia Education Savings Authority) and Article 2 (the Georgia Promise Scholarship Act), removing the entire promise scholarship account framework. - Section 2 repeals any conflicting laws, a standard clause ensuring no other statute contradicts the repeal. ## Status - Status: Introduced (2025-02-10) - Last action: Senate Read and Referred (2025-02-11) - Sponsors: Freddie Sims, Harold Jones, Derek Mallow, Ed Harbison, David Lucas, Jason Esteves, Elena Parent, Donzella James, Nan Orrock, Nikki Merritt, Kenya Wicks, Gail Davenport, Sonya Halpern, Michael Rhett, Nabilah Islam Parkes, Tonya Anderson, RaShaun Kemp, Sheikh Rahman, Kim Jackson, Sally Harrell, Randal Mangham, Josh McLaurin - Official page: https://www.legis.ga.gov/legislation/70091 > The history, votes, and amendments (95 characters) are at https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/sb134.md?full=1