SR 888: Senate Parent Accountability for Student Success Study Committee; create

This resolution does not change any law directly. Instead, it creates the Senate Parent Accountability for Student Success Study Committee, a temporary Senate body tasked with studying issues like student misconduct, declining parental engagement in academics, and rising chronic absenteeism across Georgia schools. The committee would have five members appointed by the President of the Senate, one of whom would serve as chairperson. The chairperson would call meetings, and the committee could meet wherever and whenever needed to do its work. Members would receive standard legislative allowances under O.C.G.A. § 28-1-8, capped at five days unless more are approved, paid from Senate funds. If the committee approves findings or legislative recommendations by majority vote, the chairperson must file a report with the Secretary of the Senate before the committee is abolished on December 1, 2026.

• Creates a temporary five-member Senate study committee focused on parental accountability for student behavior and academic outcomes.
• Directs the committee to study student misconduct, declining parental academic engagement, and rising chronic absenteeism in Georgia schools.
• Authorizes the committee to recommend future legislation or action based on its findings.
• Sets legislative daily allowances for committee members, capped at five days unless additional days are approved, funded through the Senate's budget.
• Requires a report of findings or a legislative recommendation to be filed with the Secretary of the Senate before the committee dissolves.
• Abolishes the committee automatically on December 1, 2026.

The five Senate members appointed to the committee, the Senate President who appoints them, and indirectly Georgia's public school students, parents, teachers, and school staff whose behavior and engagement the committee will study and may propose future legislation about.

No new rules or requirements take effect immediately; this only sets up a group to study the issue. Any real changes to parental responsibility, school discipline, or attendance policy would depend on legislation the committee recommends after its study concludes.

• Paragraph 1 creates the Senate Parent Accountability for Student Success Study Committee.
• Paragraph 2 sets committee membership at five senators appointed by the President of the Senate, who also names the chairperson.
• Paragraph 3 charges the committee with studying student misconduct, absenteeism, and parental academic engagement and recommending legislation if appropriate.
• Paragraph 5 sets member pay under O.C.G.A. § 28-1-8, capped at five allowance days unless more are authorized, funded from Senate appropriations.
• Paragraph 6 requires any approved findings or recommendations to be filed as a report with the Secretary of the Senate before abolishment.
• Paragraph 7 abolishes the committee on December 1, 2026.

1. 2026-03-03Senate Read and Referred (Senate)
2. 2026-03-02Senate Hopper (Senate)

• Matt Brass (R, SD-006)Primary sponsor
• Clint Dixon (R, SD-045)
• Randy Robertson (R, SD-029)
• Chuck Payne (R, SD-054)
• Kay Kirkpatrick (R, SD-032)
• Timothy Bearden (R, SD-030)
• Max Burns (R, SD-023)
• Ed Setzler (R, SD-037)
• Jason T. Dickerson (R, SD-021)
• Ed Harbison (D, SD-015)

• parental accountability
• school discipline
• chronic absenteeism
• education policy
• legislative study committees