Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 20. EDUCATION · Chapter 2. ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION · Article 6. QUALITY BASIC EDUCATION · Part 2. COMPETENCIES AND CORE CURRICULUM

20-2-147. Instructional activities focusing on veterans and the armed forces; closure of schools for Veterans Day.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

On a school day immediately preceding or as close to the annual observance of Veterans Day as practicable as determined by a school’s scheduled curriculum, each elementary and secondary school may provide for instructional activity focusing on the contributions of veterans and the importance of the armed forces of the United States. Beginning in the 2010-2011 school year, public elementary and secondary schools may be closed on Veterans Day as provided in paragraph (1) of subsection (c) of Code Section 20-2-168.

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Code 1981, § 20-2-147, enacted by Ga. L. 2000, p. 792, § 1; Ga. L. 2009, p. 638, § 5A/HB 193.

Editor's notes

Ga. L. 2009, p. 638, § 5B/HB 193, not codified by the General Assembly, provides, in part, that the amendment to this Code section shall apply with respect to conduct on or after May 4, 2009, and conduct prior to May 4, 2009, shall continue to be governed by prior law.

Code Commission notes

Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 2000, Code Section 20-2-146, as enacted by Ga. L. 2000, p. 792, § 1, was redesignated as Code Section 20-2-147.

Cross references

Holidays and observances, T. 1, C. 4.

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