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Bill or resolution · Georgia House of Representatives · February 6, 2025 · Passed
Distraction-Free Education Act; enact
Summary by Georgia Commons (AI-written): Georgia House Bill 340 would require public schools to ban student use of personal electronic devices like phones and smartwatches from the first bell to the last bell for kindergarten through eighth grade, starting July 1, 2026.
SECTION 2. Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to elementary and secondary education, is amended in Part 15 of Article 6, relating to miscellaneous provisions under the "Quality Basic Education Act," by adding a new Code section to read as follows: "20-2-324.8. (a) As used in this Code section, the term: (1) 'Access'...
(c) By January 1, 2026, each local school system and public school shall adopt policies and procedures that, at a minimum: (1) Prohibit bell-to-bell access to personal electronic devices by students in kindergarten through grade eight, subject to exceptions provided for by law; (2) Establish appropriate methods for storing students' personal electronic...
Bill or resolution · Georgia House of Representatives · March 6, 2025 · Introduced
Education; policies prohibiting bullying and cyberbullying; add and revise definitions
Summary by Georgia Commons (AI-written): House Bill 736 would expand Georgia's school anti-bullying law by broadening the definition of bullying, adding new terms like gender identity and progressive discipline, and requiring schools to track and report bullying incidents.
(2) 'Cyberbullying' means bullying that involves the use of electronic communication, including, but not limited to, communication devices and services, including, but not limited to, cellular telephones, cameras, computers, social media platforms, text messages, chat platforms, and internet sites. (3) 'Electronic communication' means, but is not limited...
(10) 'Sexual orientation' means heterosexuality, homosexuality or bisexuality, whether actual or perceived. (7)(11) 'Transmit' means to send or broadcast an electronic communication. (b) No later than July 1, 2026: (1) Each local board of education shall adopt a policy that prohibits to prevent and prohibit bullying, including, without limitation,...
Bill or resolution · Georgia House of Representatives · February 4, 2025 · Passed
Education; safety, health, and well-being of students and school communities; provide
Summary by Georgia Commons (AI-written): House Bill 268 requires Georgia public schools to install panic alert systems and mapping data for first responders, rewrites how student records move between schools and agencies, creates new school violence and suicide prevention programs, and adds new criminal offenses for threats against schools.
House Bill 268 (AS PASSED HOUSE AND SENATE) By: Representatives Persinger of the 119th, Efstration of the 104th, Gaines of the 120th, Burns of the 159th, Erwin of the 32nd, and others A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT To amend Chapter 11 of Title 15, Chapter 2 of Title 20, and Chapter 3 of Title 38 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the...
information regarding students with the students' assigned classroom teachers; to provide for such information to remain confidential; to provide for reports of law enforcement official encounters with school age youth; to prohibit policies which deny or effectively prevent parents and legal custodians from reviewing certain education records; to provide...
Bill or resolution · Georgia House of Representatives · March 25, 2025 · Introduced
Education, Department of; publish guidance relating to best practices for secure browsing and parental controls; require
Summary by Georgia Commons (AI-written): A Georgia House bill would add lessons on harmful online material and age verification to school internet safety programs, require the Department of Education to publish parental control guidance, and require the Attorney General to issue an annual online safety enforcement report.
House Bill 829 By: Representatives Beckles of the 96th, Hugley of the 141st, Frye of the 122nd, Williams of the 168th, Flournoy of the 74th, and others A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT To amend Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to elementary and secondary education, so as to require the Department of Education to publish...
SECTION 1. Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to elementary and secondary education, is amended by revising Code Section 20-2-149, relating to programs for educating students regarding online internet safety, as follows: "20-2-149. (a)(1) The Department of Education shall develop model programs for educating students...
Bill or resolution · Georgia House of Representatives · January 30, 2025 · Introduced
Education; use of school facilities by certain youth groups; provide
Summary by Georgia Commons (AI-written): A House committee substitute would require Georgia school districts that use state funds to let patriotic youth groups, such as Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts affiliates, use school facilities, unless a principal explains in writing why access was denied.
The House Committee on Education offers the following substitute to HB 198: A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT To amend Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to elementary and secondary education, so as to provide for the use of local school system facilities by certain youth groups; to provide for a definition; to provide for...
SECTION 1. Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to elementary and secondary education, is amended by revising Code Section 20-2-12, which is reserved, as follows: "20-2-12. (a) As used in this Code section, the term 'patriotic society' means a youth group listed in Title 36 of the United States Code as a patriotic...
Bill or resolution · Georgia House of Representatives · February 24, 2025 · Introduced
Georgia Gun Safe Act of 2025; enact
Summary by Georgia Commons (AI-written): House Bill 601, the Georgia Gun Safe Act of 2025, would rewrite large parts of Georgia's gun laws, adding new bans, storage rules, a firearms registry, waiting periods and license changes affecting gun owners, sellers, minors and peace officers statewide.
SECTION 7. Said article is further amended in said part in Code Section 16-11-127.1, relating to carrying weapons within school safety zones, at school functions, or on a bus or other transportation furnished by a school, by revising subsection (a), by reserving paragraph (6) of subsection (c), and by revising paragraph (20) of subsection (c) as follows:...
(i) Not apply to buildings or property used for athletic sporting events or student housing, including, but not limited to, fraternity and sorority houses; (ii) Not apply to any preschool or childcare space located within such buildings or real property; (iii) Not apply to any room or space being used for classes related to a college and career academy or...
Bill or resolution · Georgia House of Representatives · January 30, 2025 · Introduced
Firearms; storage within a motor vehicle or vessel; provide
Summary by Georgia Commons (AI-written): House Bill 207 would require Georgians who are not carrying a firearm on their person to keep it locked up when it's in a car or boat, instead of allowing free storage as current law does, and would apply that same locked-storage rule to the school safety zone exceptions.
SECTION 2. Said part is further amended in Code Section 16-11-127.1, relating to carrying weapons within school safety zones, at school functions, or on a bus or other transportation furnished by a school, by revising paragraphs (7), (8), and (17) of subsection (c) as follows: "(7) A lawful weapons carrier when such person carries or picks up a student...
House Bill 207 By: Representatives Crawford of the 89th, Oliver of the 84th, Westbrook of the 163rd, Willis of the 55th, and Au of the 50th A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT To amend Part 3 of Article 4 of Chapter 11 of Title 16 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to carrying and possession of firearms, so as to provide for the storage of a...
Bill or resolution · Georgia House of Representatives · February 26, 2025 · Introduced
Education; install key boxes at each school building in locations determined in collaboration with local law enforcement; provide
Summary by Georgia Commons (AI-written): A Georgia House bill would let public and private K-12 schools install exterior key boxes for police and emergency responders, with the location set jointly by school officials and local emergency agencies.
House Bill 643 By: Representatives Townsend of the 179th, Hilton of the 48th, Ballard of the 147th, Rice of the 139th, Dubnik of the 29th, and others A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT To amend Article 27 of Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to loitering at or disrupting schools, so as to provide for the local board of...
SECTION 1. Article 27 of Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to loitering at or disrupting schools, is amended by adding a new Code section to read as follows: "20-2-1186. (a) The local board of education or other governing body of each public and private elementary and secondary school in this state shall be authorized...
Bill or resolution · Georgia House of Representatives · January 17, 2025 · Introduced
Safe Teens Act; enact
Summary by Georgia Commons (AI-written): House Bill 106, the Safe Teens Act, would let Georgia public schools offer driver education training as an elective course, paid for through local funds, student fees, and state funding if lawmakers approve it.
SECTION 1. This Act shall be known and may be cited as the "Safe Teens Act."
Bill or resolution · Georgia House of Representatives · February 26, 2025 · Introduced
Georgia Dye Free School Meals Act; enact
Summary by Georgia Commons (AI-written): House Bill 642 would ban public schools in Georgia from serving or selling foods and drinks containing seven synthetic dyes, starting with the 2026-2027 school year.
SECTION 3. Part 3 of Article 16 of Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to student health, is amended by adding a new Code section to read as follows: "20-2-779.5. (a) As used in this Code section, the term 'synthetic dye' means: (1) Blue 1; (2) Blue 2; (3) Green 3; (4) Red 3; (5) Red 40; (6) Yellow 5; or (7) Yellow 6....
SECTION 4. All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.
Bill or resolution · Georgia House of Representatives · February 13, 2025 · Introduced
Education; students shall not be counted absent from school due to performing in certain productions; provisions
Summary by Georgia Commons (AI-written): House Bill 442 would let Georgia students who perform in stage, screen, or other productions avoid being marked absent for up to 25 school days, as long as a studio teacher provides aligned instruction.
(3) For a student performer to be credited as present as provided in subsection (b) of this Code section, a parent or guardian shall provide appropriate authorization for the student performer's studio teachers and school personnel to communicate regarding the student performer, including, but not limited to, communications involving the student performer's...
SECTION 2. All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.
Bill or resolution · Georgia House of Representatives · March 3, 2025 · Introduced
Georgia Firearms and Weapons Act; enact
Summary by Georgia Commons (AI-written): A Georgia House bill would ban possession of rapid-fire attachments, like bump stocks, that let a gun fire more than six shots with one trigger pull, folding them into the state's existing ban on machine guns and sawed-off weapons.
SECTION 3. Code Section 15-11-2 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to definitions relative to the juvenile code, is amended by revising subdivision (13)(N)(i)(II) as follows: "(II) Dangerous weapon or machine gun, as defined in Code Section 16-11-121; or"
SECTION 4. All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.
Bill or resolution · Georgia House of Representatives · February 18, 2025 · Introduced
True Campus Safety Act; enact
Summary by Georgia Commons (AI-written): House Bill 469 would repeal Georgia laws that let certain school personnel carry weapons in school safety zones and at school functions, undoing an exception in the state's weapons law.
SECTION 2. Part 3 of Article 4 of Chapter 11 of Title 16 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to carrying and possession of firearms, is amended by repealing and reserving paragraph (6) of subsection (c) of Code Section 16-11-127.1, relating to carrying weapons within school safety zones, at school functions, or on a bus or other...
SECTION 3. Said part is further amended by repealing and reserving Code Section 16-11-130.1, relating to allowing personnel to carry weapons within certain school safety zones and at school functions.
Bill or resolution · Georgia House of Representatives · March 28, 2025 · Introduced
Motor vehicles; penalty for violations captured by school bus camera; provisions
Summary by Georgia Commons (AI-written): A Georgia House bill would revise the fines for illegally passing a stopped school bus, add a minimum penalty amount, and change how civil fines from school bus cameras are spent so that money goes to school safety measures instead of general law enforcement funding.
(v) Information advising the owner of the motor vehicle of the manner and time in which liability as alleged in the citation may be contested in court, including the following statement in at least 12 point font in a conspicuous location on the front of the first page of such mailing: 'YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO CONTEST THIS PENALTY IN COURT'; and (vi) A warning...
SECTION 2. All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.
Bill or resolution · Georgia House of Representatives · January 27, 2025 · Introduced
Student Character Development Act; enact
Summary by Georgia Commons (AI-written): HB 133 would let Georgia public school districts adopt policies allowing students to leave school for religious moral instruction classes for up to an hour a week, without counting the time as an absence.
SECTION 3. This Act shall become effective upon its approval by the Governor or upon its becoming law without such approval.
SECTION 4. All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.
Bill or resolution · Georgia House of Representatives · January 15, 2025 · Introduced
Healthy Start Act; enact
Summary by Georgia Commons (AI-written): House Bill 60, the "Healthy Start" Act, would require Georgia public schools to offer free breakfast and lunch to students who currently qualify only for reduced-price meals, and would push high-poverty schools into a federal free-meal program.
SECTION 3. Said chapter is further amended in Part 5 of Article 6, relating to program weights and funding requirements, by revising Code Section 20-2-187, relating to state-wide school lunch program, instruction in nutrition, hygiene, etiquette, and social graces, and school food and nutrition personnel, as follows: "20-2-187. (a)(1) The State Board of...
(3) Each local school system operating a school breakfast program pursuant to paragraph (1) or (2) of this subsection shall be reimbursed by the state at the federal reimbursement rate per eligible meal prepared and served; provided, however, that, if federal funding for the school breakfast program ceases, the state shall reimburse each local school system...
Bill or resolution · Georgia House of Representatives · April 2, 2025 · Passed
Completion Special Schools Act; certain local school systems to either be a party to a collaborative operating agreement with a completion special school or provide certain education programs and services; require
Summary by Georgia Commons (AI-written): House Bill 907 changes Georgia's Completion Special Schools Act, requiring local school districts near these alternative high schools to either partner with them or offer similar dropout-prevention and credit-recovery programs themselves.
(2) The parent or guardian of a student in grades nine through 12 who is enrolled or eligible to be enrolled in a school in his or her resident school system shall be permitted to register such student directly with a completion special school to attend one or more classes at such completion special school's credit recovery, dropout prevention, or academic...
SECTION 2. Said article is further amended by revising subsection (b) of Code Section 20-2-2096.7, relating to attendance zones, payments, and use of funds, as follows: "(b)(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2) of this subsection, only one completion special school may operate in each attendance zone provided for in subsection (a) of this Code section....
Bill or resolution · Georgia House of Representatives · February 26, 2025 · Passed
Motor vehicles; use of automated traffic enforcement safety devices in school zones; revise provisions
Summary by Georgia Commons (AI-written): House Bill 651 rewrites Georgia's rules for school zone speed cameras, adding new penalties for misuse, requiring flashing warning lights, and requiring local voters to approve camera enforcement through a referendum starting in 2027.
SECTION 8. Said article is further amended by revising Code Section 40-14-18, relating to enforcement of speed limit in school zones with recorded images, civil monetary penalty, and consequences for failure to pay penalty, as follows: "40-14-18. (a)(1) The speed limit within any school zone as provided for in Code Section 40-14-8 and marked pursuant to...
SECTION 9. Said article is further amended by adding a new Code section to read as follows: "40-14-19. (a) Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter to the contrary, no contract shall be entered into or renewed by the governing body of a county or municipality or any law enforcement agency thereof for the enforcement of speeding violations in a school...
Bill or resolution · Georgia House of Representatives · March 6, 2025 · Passed
Title I Parent Centers of the Meadowcreek Cluster and the Parent Instructional Coordinators and Parent Outreach Liaisons at Ferguson Elementary School, Graves Elementary School, Lilburn Elementary School, Meadowcreek Elementary School, and others; commend
Summary by Georgia Commons (AI-written): A Georgia House resolution commends the Title I Parent Centers of the Meadowcreek Cluster in Gwinnett County and the parent coordinators and liaisons who staff them at ten schools.
House Resolution 534 By: Representatives Lim of the 98th, Clark of the 108th, and McClain of the 109th A RESOLUTION Commending the Title I Parent Centers of the Meadowcreek Cluster and the Parent Instructional Coordinators and Parent Outreach Liaisons at Ferguson Elementary School, Graves Elementary School, Lilburn Elementary School, Meadowcreek Elementary...
WHEREAS, at Rockbridge Elementary School, Kyla Ramsey, Parent Instructional Coordinator, and Ivan Cerda, Parent Outreach Liaison, have provided invaluable resources and instruction to school families, prioritizing family engagement through consistent communication and volunteer opportunities for parents; and WHEREAS, Rockbridge Elementary School's Parent...
Bill or resolution · Georgia House of Representatives · February 3, 2025 · Engrossed
Motor vehicles; enforcement of speeding violations in school zones through automated traffic enforcement safety devices; repeal all laws
Summary by Georgia Commons (AI-written): A Georgia Senate substitute for HB 225 would repeal the state law allowing school zone speed cameras and ban local governments from signing new or renewed camera enforcement contracts starting July 1, 2027.
SECTION 8. Said article is further amended by repealing Code Section 40-14-18, relating to enforcement of speed limit in school zones with recorded images, civil monetary penalty, and consequences for failure to pay penalty.
SECTION 9. Said article is further amended by adding a new Code section to read as follows: "40-14-19. (a) No contract shall be entered into or renewed by a local governing body or law enforcement agency for the enforcement of speeding violations in a school zone through the use of an automated traffic enforcement safety device on or after July 1, 2027. (b)...
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