--- title: O.C.G.A. § 20-3-560. Legislative intent. collection: code id: 20-3-560 cite_as: O.C.G.A. § 20-3-560 (2025) canonical_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/20-3-560 md_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/20-3-560.md text_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/20-3-560/text source_url: https://www.legis.ga.gov/api/document/docs/default-source/joint-features-document-library/t20-ch3-18-(v17a)-2025-pdf.pdf?sfvrsn=10d12596_0#page=351 date: 2025 status: active corpus_version: 2025-supplement-89aa39ab3c68 license: CC0-1.0 publisher: Georgia Commons, an independent project of Georgia Civic Data. Not the State of Georgia. Not legal advice. up: https://georgiacommons.org/code/20-3.md previous: https://georgiacommons.org/code/20-3-548.md next: https://georgiacommons.org/code/20-3-561.md index: https://georgiacommons.org/code/index.md version: the only printed version in_force: true current_through: Including Acts of the 2025 Session of the General Assembly of Georgia heading_path: EDUCATION / POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION / GEORGIA MILITARY COLLEGE / FUNDING; DONATIONS; PROPERTY; SCHOLARSHIPS --- # O.C.G.A. § 20-3-560. Legislative intent. It is the intention of the General Assembly that the Georgia Military College be a state-wide institution dedicated to providing a high-quality military education to the youth of this state, but not beyond the level of the second year of postsecondary study except for Bachelor of Applied Science degree programs which assist graduates of institutions under the Technical College System of Georgia in the attainment of a four-year bachelor’s degree; provided, however, that no branch of the Georgia Military College shall offer any Bachelor of Applied Science degree program that is currently being offered by an institution of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia which is located in the same county as such branch; provided, further, that the level of such educational programs shall be subject to the availability of funds appropriated by the General Assembly. The student enrollment of the college shall reflect as closely as possible the racial and demographic makeup of the state. ## History Code 1981, § 20-3-560, enacted by Ga. L. 1990, p. 579, § 1; Ga. L. 2014, p. 474, § 1/HB 763.