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Monday, February 10, 2025 - Day 14
Archive of previous Legislative Alerts for this session
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Calendar for the week
The Georgia General Assembly will meet Monday through Thursday this week before taking off Friday for Valentine's Day.
The Senate Appropriations Committee meets Tuesday morning at 7:30 a.m. to hear the House-adopted, 2024-2025 adjusted state budget.
The Senate Education and Youth Committee meets tomorrow at 5:00 p.m. No agenda has been posted. The Committee also plans to meet Thursday at 1:00 p.m.
A meeting of the Senate Retirement Committee, originally scheduled for Tuesday, has been postponed.
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GAE bill to pay student teachers filed
Three Republicans and three Democrats have joined together to sponsor GAE-initated legislation that would provide a stipend or compensation for student teachers. The bill is HB 310. The bill is sponsored by:
Rep. Phil Olaleye, D-Atlanta,
House Minority Carolyn Hugley, D-Columbus
Rep Bethany Ballard, R-Warner Robins,
Rep. Imani Barnes, D-Tucker,
Rep. Leesa Hagan, R-Lyons, and
Chairman Shaw Blackmon, R-Bonaire.
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House Education Committee met today
State School Superintendent Richard Woods was first on the agenda for this afternoon's meeting of the House Education Committee. He shared with the committee his department's 2025 legislative priorities. Woods answered a number of questions from the committee members, including on cell phone use by students during the school day, the education of children of active-duty military parents, and school safety.
Thereafter, the committee took up three bills that were passed out of subcommittees last week, including:
HB 105: Would double the permanent disability and death benefits to a public school teacher or school employee injured or killed on the job from $75,000 to $150,000.
The bill, from Rep. Will Wade, R-Dawsonville, could hit the floor of the House of Representatives this week. It passed out of committee unanimously. Wade was joined in his presentation of the bill by Rep. Holt Persinger, R-Winder, in whose district lies Apalachee High School, where nine died or were injured in a school shooting in September.
HB 192: "The Top State for Talent Act" would update the High-Demand Career List published by the State Workforce Development Board with respect to the State Board of Education's minimum course of study in career, technical, and agricultural education for students in grades six through 12. It also passed out of full committee unanimously.
HB 81: "The Interstate Compact for School Psychologists," if enacted, would "facilitate the interstate practice of school psychology in educational or school settings ..." The Compact is intended to establish a pathway to allow school psychologists to obtain equivalent licenses to provide school psychological services."
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Bill proposes to require teacher salary schedule
be revised annually to account for inflation
Freshmen Tangie Herring, D-Macon, a 28-year classroom teacher in Houston and Gwinnett counties and, for 20 years, in the Atlanta public schools, has filed HB 333, to require annual adjustments to the state teacher salary schedule, which would increase or decrease based on inflation.
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Speakers for GAE Day at the CapitolGAE DAY AT THE CAPITOL IS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20;
PROGRAM BEGINS AT 8 AM, DOORS OPEN AT 7 AM
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Rep. Chris Erwin, R-Homer, chair, House Education Committee
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Rep. Lydia Glaize, D-Fairburn, member, House Education Committee
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Rep. Phil Olaleye, D-Atlanta, member, House Education Committee
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|  | Sen. Sonya Halpern, D-Atlanta, member, Senate Education Committee
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Rep. Gerald Greene, R-Cuthbert, public school teacher for 32 years and former GAE member
| |  | Rep. Mekyah McQueen, D-Smyrna, former GAE member
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Next Legislation Contact Team (LCT) meeting is Feb. 13
Join us Thursday, February 13, at 6:30 p.m. for the latest on the current legislative session.
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HB 340 would ban cell phones from classrooms
A bill to implement a statewide ban on the use of cell phones during the school day has been introduced affecting students in grades k-8. If passed, "The Distraction-Free Education Act" or HB 340, would in effect by January 1, 2026.
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Bill would require 10 Commandments be posted in schools
HB 313 would requires all public schools, k-12, post a poster-sized copy of the Ten Commandments at the main entrance to the school and at the entrance to a cafeteria and library.
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SB 126 would lower the age of eligibility for completion schools
SB 126 would lower the age of eligibility for enrollment in a competition school from 18 to 16 years of age.
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16 Senate Republicans filed anti-DEI bill
Following the lead of President Donald Trump, Senate Republican have presented legislation, SB 120, which states: "No public school, local education agency, or postsecondary institution shall promote, support, or maintain any programs or activities that advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion beyond upholding the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the Fourteenth
Amendment to the United States Constitution and Article I, Section I, Paragraph II of the
Georgia Constitution."
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| Next Legislative Update: Tuesday, February 11
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