Georgia CommonsHouse · Passed · 2025-2026 Regular Session
HB 1514: Fulton County; Board of Education; change election date of president
Last action July 1, 2026 · Effective Date
House Bill 1514 changes when the Fulton County Board of Education elects its president, moving the vote to December of even-numbered years instead of the previous schedule.
The summaries below were written by an AI model (claude-sonnet-5) from the text of the bill and are not part of it. Quote the text, not the summary. The stored text is the Enrolled version, the latest the General Assembly's website lists.
In plain language
This bill amends a 1984 local law that governs the Board of Education of Fulton County. The change is narrow: it revises the section of that law dealing with how and when the board picks its president. Under the new language, the board's president would still be chosen by a majority vote of the board's own members, but the election would happen at the board's first regular meeting held in December of each even-numbered year, and the president would serve until a successor is elected. The bill does not change how many members sit on the board, how those members are elected, or any other part of the board's structure. It only resets the timing of the internal vote for board president. The change would take effect July 1, 2026, and any earlier laws that conflict with it are repealed.
What the bill does
- Rewrites subsection (a) of Section 4 of the 1984 Fulton County school board law to change the timing of the board president's election.
- Sets the president's election for the board's first regular meeting held in December of each even-numbered year.
- Keeps the requirement that the president be chosen by a majority vote of the board's own members.
- Specifies the president serves until a successor is elected under this same process.
- Sets an effective date of July 1, 2026, and repeals any conflicting laws.
Who it affects
This bill affects the Fulton County Board of Education, specifically its members and whoever serves as board president, by changing the internal timing rule for choosing that leadership position. It does not directly affect students, teachers, or the general public beyond how board leadership is selected.
Why it matters
The practical effect is a procedural one: Fulton County's school board will hold its presidential election on a different schedule going forward, in December of even-numbered years, which could shift when leadership transitions happen relative to other board business or election cycles.
Key provisions
- Section 1 revises subsection (a) of Section 4 of the 1984 Act to move the board president's election to the first regular meeting held in December of each even-numbered year.
- Section 1 retains the requirement that the president be elected by a majority vote of the board's members and serve until a successor is chosen.
- Section 2 sets the effective date as July 1, 2026.
- Section 3 repeals any laws or parts of laws that conflict with this Act.
From the bill
“The president shall be elected at the first regular meeting of the board held during December of each even-numbered year and shall serve until a successor is elected by the board as herein provided.”
Discussed in meetings (5)
The House and Senate meetings that took this bill up, from their machine transcripts. Each account was written by Georgia Commons with AI and is not part of the record; the video is what was said.
House floor session, March 18, 2026 (legislative day 33)
From 0:51:13 · Watch on the General Assembly's Vimeo channel · Confirmed by the 2026 House Journal, p. 2706
Summary by Georgia Commons: The clerk read a committee recommendation to pass HB 1514 and later included it in the local calendar for Fulton County. There was no individual presentation or debate. The House passed the package, 161 to 2.
- Read aloud: House floor session, March 6, 2026 (legislative day 28, AM), 0:48:13
- Read aloud: House floor session, March 9, 2026 (legislative day 29), 1:07:20
- Read aloud: Senate floor session, March 19, 2026 (legislative day 34), 0:39:05
- Read aloud: Senate floor session, March 25, 2026 (legislative day 37), 0:36:35
Status timeline
- Effective Date
- Act 667
- House Date Signed by Governor (House)
- House Sent to Governor (House)
- Senate Passed/Adopted (Senate)
- Senate Committee Favorably Reported (Senate)
- Senate Read and Referred (Senate)
- House Passed/Adopted (House)
Show full history (13 actions)
- House Third Readers (House)
- House Committee Favorably Reported (House)
- House Second Readers (House)
- House First Readers (House)
- House Hopper (House)
Sponsors
- Lydia Glaize (D, HD-67)
- Phil Olaleye (D, HD-59)
- Esther Panitch (D, HD-51)
- Mekyah McQueen (D, HD-61)
- Robert Dawson (D, HD-65)
- Stacey Evans (D, HD-57)
Votes
- House voteMarch 18, 2026
161 yea, 2 nay (7 not voting, 6 excused)
- Senate voteMarch 25, 2026
50 yea, 0 nay (2 not voting, 2 excused)
Topics
- Fulton County schools
- school board elections
- local legislation
- education governance