HR 424: Executive Function Day at the state capitol; March 26, 2025; recognize

This resolution from the Georgia House of Representatives designates March 26, 2025 as Executive Function Day at the state capitol. It does not change any law. Instead, it states the House's view that executive function, meaning cognitive skills like self-regulation, working memory, time management, and task completion, plays an important role in reading comprehension, personalized learning, and students' broader academic and life success. The resolution directs the Clerk of the House of Representatives to distribute copies of it to members of the State Board of Education, the public, and the press. It falls during National Brain Awareness Month and is meant to draw attention to executive function's educational impact rather than to create any new program, funding, or requirement.

• Formally recognizes March 26, 2025 as Executive Function Day at the Georgia state capitol.
• States the House's position that executive function skills are foundational to reading, learning, and personalized education.
• Directs the Clerk of the House to distribute copies of the resolution to the State Board of Education, the public, and the press.
• Creates no new law, funding, or enforceable requirement, since it is a resolution rather than a bill.

The resolution mainly affects the State Board of Education, which receives distributed copies, and is symbolic in nature. It does not impose obligations on schools, teachers, students, or families, but reflects the House's stated interest in executive function skills in education.

Because this is a resolution rather than a bill, it carries no legal force and changes no Georgia law or funding. Its practical effect is limited to public recognition and distributing copies to the State Board of Education, the public, and the press, drawing attention to a topic in education research.

• The resolving clause designates March 26, 2025 as Executive Function Day at the state capitol during National Brain Awareness Month.
• A further resolved clause authorizes and directs the Clerk of the House of Representatives to distribute copies to the State Board of Education, the public, and the press.
• The whereas clauses describe executive function skills such as self-regulation, working memory, cognitive flexibility, and time management as foundational to learning.

1. 2025-02-26House Read and Adopted (Cámara de Representantes)
2. 2025-02-26House First Readers (Cámara de Representantes)
3. 2025-02-26House Hopper (Cámara de Representantes)

• Lisa Campbell (D, HD-035)Patrocinador principal
• Chris Erwin (R, HD-032)
• Miriam Paris (D, HD-142)
• Karen Lupton (D, HD-083)
• Lydia Glaize (D, HD-067)
• Bethany Ballard (R, HD-147)

• education
• executive function
• state capitol recognition
• personalized learning