Senate · Introduced · 2025-2026 Regular Session

SB 309: Education; repeal Chapter 2B

Last action February 28, 2025 · Senate Read and Referred

A Georgia Senate bill would repeal the state's promise scholarship program, eliminating both the agency that runs it and the law that created it.

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In plain language

Georgia currently has a law, Chapter 2B of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, that created promise scholarship accounts. That chapter includes the Georgia Education Savings Authority, which administers the accounts, and the Georgia Promise Scholarship Act, which set up the scholarship program itself, often referred to as a school voucher program that lets families use state funds toward private school tuition or other education expenses. This bill would repeal that entire chapter, removing both the authority that runs the program and the law authorizing the scholarships. It also repeals any other Georgia laws that conflict with this change. The bill does not create a replacement program or spell out what happens to accounts already opened; it simply eliminates the legal basis for the promise scholarship system.

What the bill does

Repeals Chapter 2B of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated in its entirety, ending the state's promise scholarship account program.
Eliminates the Georgia Education Savings Authority, the entity created to administer promise scholarship accounts.
Repeals the Georgia Promise Scholarship Act, the law that established eligibility and funding rules for the scholarships.
Repeals any other Georgia laws that conflict with this repeal, though it does not specify a transition plan for existing accounts.

Who it affects

Families currently participating in or planning to apply for Georgia's promise scholarship accounts, the Georgia Education Savings Authority and its staff, private schools that may have received scholarship funds, and public school systems affected by the program's existence.

Why it matters

If enacted, families who rely on or hoped to use promise scholarship accounts to pay for private school or other education costs would lose that option, and the state agency overseeing the program would no longer have a legal basis to operate.

Key provisions

Section 1 repeals Chapter 2B of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, covering both Article 1 (the Georgia Education Savings Authority) and Article 2 (the Georgia Promise Scholarship Act).
Section 2 repeals any other Georgia laws that conflict with this Act, a standard clause used to clear away contradictory provisions.

From the bill

“Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to education, is amended by repealing Chapter 2B, relating to promise scholarship accounts.”
The bill's core action: eliminating the entire chapter of law governing promise scholarship accounts.

Status timeline

2025-02-28Senate Read and Referred (Senate)
2025-02-27Senate Hopper (Senate)

Topics

school vouchers
promise scholarships
education funding
private school tuition

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