HB1514: HB1514 Fulton County; Board of Education; change election date of president

This bill amends a 1984 local law that set up how the Fulton County Board of Education chooses its members and leadership. The only substantive change is to when the board elects its president. Under the revised language, the board's president would be elected from among its own members by majority vote, and that election would happen at the board's first regular meeting held in December of each even-numbered year. The president would continue serving until a successor is chosen under the same process. 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 repeals any conflicting laws and takes effect July 1, 2026.

• Rewrites subsection (a) of Section 4 of the 1984 Fulton County Board of Education Act to move the presidential election date to December of even-numbered years.
• Keeps the requirement that the board president be chosen from among its own members by a majority vote of the board.
• Keeps the rule that the president serves until a successor is elected under the same process.
• Repeals any prior laws that conflict with the new election timing.
• Sets the effective date of the change as July 1, 2026.

The members of the Fulton County Board of Education, who will vote on when to choose their president under the new December, even-numbered-year schedule, and Fulton County residents whose local school board leadership timeline this governs.

Shifting the presidential election to December of even-numbered years changes the internal calendar the Fulton County Board of Education follows for choosing its leadership, which can affect continuity of leadership during the school year and align it with other board or election cycles.

• Section 1 revises subsection (a) of Section 4 of the 1984 Act (Ga. L. 1984, p. 359) to set the president's election at the board's first regular meeting in December of each even-numbered year.
• Section 2 sets the effective date of the Act as July 1, 2026.
• Section 3 repeals all laws and parts of laws that conflict with this Act.

1. 2026-05-12Effective Date 2026-07-01
2. 2026-05-12Act 667
3. 2026-05-12House Date Signed by Governor (House)
4. 2026-04-06House Sent to Governor (House)
5. 2026-03-25Senate Passed/Adopted (Senate)
6. 2026-03-25Senate Committee Favorably Reported (Senate)
7. 2026-03-19Senate Read and Referred (Senate)
8. 2026-03-18House Passed/Adopted (House)

• Lydia Glaize (D, HD-067)Primary sponsor
• Phil Olaleye (D, HD-059)
• Esther Panitch (D, HD-051)
• Mekyah McQueen (D, HD-061)
• Robert Dawson (D, HD-065)
• Stacey Evans (D, HD-057)

1. PassedHouse voteMarch 18, 2026

   161 yea, 2 nay (7 not voting, 6 absent)

   Local Calendar : House Vote #712

2. PassedSenate voteMarch 25, 2026

   50 yea, 0 nay (2 not voting, 2 absent)

   Local Consent Calendar: Senate Vote #799

• Fulton County schools
• school board elections
• local government law
• education governance