Education and Youth

GA - Senator Billy Hickman (R)

Title:

Chairman

GA - Senator Chuck Payne (R)

Title:

Vice Chairman

GA - Senator Freddie Powell Sims (D)

Title:

Secretary

GA - Senator Timothy Bearden (R)

Title:

Member

GA - Senator Clint Dixon (R)

Title:

Ex-officio

GA - Senator Greg Dolezal (R)

Title:

Ex-officio

GA - Senator Sonya Halpern (D)

Title:

Member

GA - Senator Bo Hatchett (R)

Title:

Ex-officio

GA - Senator Donzella James (D)

Title:

Member

GA - Senator RaShaun Kemp (D)

Title:

Member

GA - Senator Elena Parent (D)

Title:

Member

GA - Senator Ed Setzler (R)

Title:

Ex-officio

GA - Senator Shawn Still (R)

Title:

Member

GA - SB1 'Fair and Safe Athletic Opportunities Act'; enact

GA - SB4 Education; fundamental roles of local boards of education and local school superintendents; revise provisions

GA - HB37 Education; require local school systems to notify employees regarding social security withholdings and eligibility for certain benefits

GA - SB17 "Ricky and Alyssa's Law"; enact

GA - HB81 Interstate Compact for School Psychologists; enter into

GA - HB105 Pubic officers and employees; increase indemnification award of certain state public school personnel in the event of death

GA - SB22 State School Superintendent; Department of Education to publish relevant and applicable federal guidance documents and related information; require

GA - HB127 Education; number of accumulated sick leave days for teachers and other school personnel; increase from three to five

GA - SB41 Education; equal athletic opportunities for public school students; provide

GA - SB44 Equalization Grants, Annual Calculations, and Allocation; the definition of the term "qualified local school system" by reducing the minimum required millage rate; revise

GA - SB54 State Board of Education; establishment of a program and state-wide database relating to threats to safety made on or impacting school campuses; require

GA - SB63 "Quality Basic Education Act"; local school systems offer certain exams to home study students; require

GA - HB200 State Board of Education; establish a three-year pilot immersive writing program for eligible public elementary schools; provide

GA - SB65 Education; mandatory kindergarten for all children prior to entering into first grade; provide

GA - SB74 Harmful Materials to Minors; exemption for libraries and librarians from the provisions of Code Section 16-12-103; repeal

GA - SB82 "Local Charter School Authorization and Support Act of 2025"; enact

GA - HB235 Georgia Supporting Living Donor Educators Act; enact

GA - SB93 "Georgia Early Literacy Act"; the three-cuing system from inclusion in high-quality instructional materials or structured literacy; prohibit

GA - HB307 Quality Basic Education Act; students significantly at risk of not achieving grade level reading proficiency or with characteristics of dyslexia; include provisions

GA - HB310 Student Teacher Promotion Act; enact

GA - SB123 Compulsory Attendance; provisions of the state's compulsory school attendance laws; update and revise

GA - SB124 Education; State School Superintendent and the Department of Education to take all steps reasonably necessary to implement guidance documents from a federal agency; require

GA - SB126 Completion Special Schools Act; certain students to be enrolled; lower the age of eligibility from 18 to 16

GA - HB371 Quality Basic Education Act; state's maximum authorization of capital outlay funding; provide for an increase

GA - SB128 Quality Basic Education Act; grants to eligible local units of administration for students living in poverty; provide

GA - SB133 "Blind Persons' Braille Literacy Rights and Education Act"; enact

GA - SB134 Education; repeal Chapter 2B, relating to promise scholarship accounts, including both Articles 1 and 2 of said chapter

GA - HB419 Education; require possession of opioid antagonists by institutions within University System of Georgia

GA - SB148 Public School Property and Facilities; outdoor learning spaces pilot program; provide

GA - SB152 "Georgia Promise Scholarship Act"; the biological or adopted children of individuals who are foster parents and who meet certain conditions shall qualify for promise scholarship accounts; provide

GA - SB154 United States Department of Education; references from the Official Code of Georgia Annotated; revise or remove

GA - HB451 Quality Basic Education Act; local boards shall be authorized to provide instruction in hunting safety in grades six through 12; provide

GA - SB171 Quality Basic Education Act; State Board of Education to develop an advanced mathematics pathway; require

GA - SB181 Education; public schools and public postsecondary institutions shall not accept funding from or enter into contracts with foreign adversaries; provide

GA - SB217 'Healthy Start"; enact

GA - SR217 Senate Study Committee on Combating Chronic Absenteeism in Schools; create

GA - SB225 Education; discrimination on the basis of an individual's race due to a protective hairstyle, or length thereof, in any student dress or grooming policy; prohibit

GA - SR237 Professional Standards Commission; provide recommendations to support the state's K-12 education workforce and teacher and school leader pipeline; urge

GA - SB247 Sick, Personal, and Maternity Leave for Teachers; the number of accumulated sick leave days teachers may take for personal or professional reasons; increase

GA - SB248 Georgia Council on Library Materials Standards; establish and provide

GA - SB249 "Quality Basic Education Act,"; beginning in the 2031-2032 school year, a computer science course shall be a high school graduation requirement; provide

GA - SB250 Wesley's Law Grant Program; provide for the creation of and establish a purpose

GA - SB253 State Board of Education; establish a three-year pilot robotics program for eligible public schools; provide

GA - HB629 Education; remove requirement of having a licensed physician in automated external defibrillator programs

GA - HB634 Georgia Special Needs Scholarship Act; expedited completion of a student's first Individualized Education Program; revise provisions

GA - SB295 State Board of Education; local school systems to maintain and publish a registry of all contracts worth more than $10,000.00; require

GA - SB300 "Student Teacher Promotion Act"; enact

GA - SB309 Education; repeal Chapter 2B

GA - SR301 Senate Rosenwald Schools Study Committee; create

GA - SB322 State Board of Education; include instruction in the proper use of a school bus passenger restraint system within its program of safety instruction; require

GA - SB325 Education; local school systems and public schools to employ or accept as volunteers school chaplains; authorize

GA - SB369 "Charter Schools Act of 1998,"; completion charter schools; provide

GA - HB907 Completion Special Schools Act; certain local school systems to either be a party to a collaborative operating agreement with a completion special school or provide certain education programs and services; require

GA - SR545 Senate Paid Student Teaching Study Committee; create

GA - SR553 Senate Study Committee on Funding for Charter School Capital Improvements; create

GA - SB381 Quality Basic Education Act; grants to eligible local units of administration for students living in poverty; provide

GA - HB971 Quality Basic Education Act; home study students and private school students to enroll in college and career academies located in certain RESA service areas and adjacent local school systems; provide

GA - SB401 Education; local boards of education shall be required to provide instruction in firearm safety in kindergarten through grade 12; provide

GA - SB412 Education; accumulated sick leave days teachers and other school personnel may take each school year for personal or professional reasons; increase

GA - HB1030 Math Matters Act; enact

GA - HB1045 You Are Not Alone Awareness Act; enact

GA - SB425 Education; all schools that receive state funding with students in any of grades three through five to provide instruction in cursive handwriting to all students by no later than third grade; require

GA - SB426 Education; high school students seeking a high school diploma to achieve a minimum score of 70 percent on the United States Citizenship Civics Test; require

GA - HB1107 Excellent Teacher Preparation Act; enact

GA - HB1114 Quality Basic Education Act; allow for students in ninth and tenth grade to complete the high school graduation financial literacy course requirement

GA - SB438 Education; the beginning age for compulsory school attendance from six years to five years; reduce

GA - SB445 "Georgia Promise Scholarship Act"; public schools with a state-wide attendance zone and certain charter schools shall not be included in the separate list of public schools annually reported by the Office of Student Achievement; provide

GA - HB1164 Education; require State Board of Education to appoint an audit committee

GA - HB1193 Georgia Early Literacy Act of 2026; enact

GA - SB459 "Georgia Early Literacy Act of 2026"; enact

GA - HB1220 Education; student eligibility and maximum scholarship amounts; revise provisions

GA - SB466 Local Board of Education; install key boxes at each school building in locations determined in collaboration with local law enforcement and emergency management agencies; require

GA - SB471 Education; requires a student to wear a face mask or face covering while present on school property; eliminate automatic repeal provision

GA - SB472 Local Boards of Education; audit findings or findings by the state auditor of financial mismanagement or misconduct; provide for the suspension of members

GA - SB475 Charter School Funding; local boards of education to treat local charter schools no less favorably than other local schools; expenditure of the proceeds of a special purpose local option sales tax; require

GA - HB1259 Education; prohibit virtual instruction to out-of-system students if the local school system has a College and Career Ready Performance Index below the state average

GA - SB479 Compulsory Attendance; adopt a policy that students shall be granted not less than one excused absence for attending or participating in a civic or political event; require the local governing body

GA - SB484 Certificated Professional Personnel; pathway to certification by the Professional Standards Commission for experienced teachers; provide

GA - SB487 Education Workforce Data Governance Advisory Committee; within the Office of Student Achievement; establish

GA - SB490 "Georgia Student Mental Health Days Act"; enact

GA - SB493 "Promise Scholarship Student Success and Transparency Act"; enact

GA - HB1284 Education; awarding of high school diplomas to high school students who are at the end of life; provide

GA - SB497 School Students; written notification to a parent when a student receives certain noninstructional services from certain school employees; require

GA - HB1293 Education; updated eligibility requirements for the Dual Achievement Program; provide

GA - SB513 "Every Day Counts Act"; enact

GA - SB519 Education; provisions relating to the conditions of employment for employees of local school systems and other public schools; revise

GA - SB537 Education; schools that receive state funds from displaying any flag other than the flag of the United States or the flag, coat of arms, or state emblem of the State of Georgia; prohibit

GA - SB554 Early Care and Learning; a grant program to expand access to child care and preschool programs; provide

GA - SB557 Education; various provisions regarding student discipline and working conditions of teachers and other school personnel; revise

GA - SB589 "Quality Basic Education Act"; the date by which a child must attain a certain age to be eligible for enrollment in kindergarten or first grade; revise

GA - SB595 State Board of Education; establish a student personal development and career readiness program; authorize

GA - SB596 "Quality Basic Education Act"; State Board of Education to establish a program of state-wide coordinated support for summer literacy programs offered by local school systems and other public schools; require

GA - SB597 "Student Legal Literacy and Life Skills Education Act"; enact

GA - SR888 Senate Parent Accountability for Student Success Study Committee; create

GA - SR952 Senate Rosenwald Schools Study Committee; create