2025-2026 Regular Session

HB1591

Dekalb County; Board of Education; recruitment, vetting, and appointment of and contracting with school system superintendent; establish protocols

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act to create and establish in DeKalb County, Georgia, districts from which the members of the County Board of Education of DeKalb County shall be elected, approved April 12, 1963 (Ga. L. 1963, p. 3424), as amended, so as to establish protocols governing the recruitment, vetting, and appointment of and contracting with the superintendent of the DeKalb County School System; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

Current disposition: Pending: House Intragovernmental Coordination
Last status date: March 25, 2026
Last status update: House Second Readers
Pending committee: Intragovernmental Coordination
Author: Karla Drenner
Co-sponsors: Karen Lupton Billy Mitchell Omari Crawford Saira Draper Long Tran

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Committee referrals

March 23, 2026 · House

Intragovernmental Coordination

Instrument history

This is the complete recorded action history in the current source package. Highlighted entries are marked as significant by the source. A roll-call link appears only when a vote-like action has one unambiguous same-day chamber vote.

March 25, 2026
House House Second Readers
March 23, 2026
House House First Readers
March 20, 2026
House House Hopper

Source provenance

LegiScan bill ID: 2136821
LegiScan session ID: 2167
Source file: var/states/georgia/source/legiscan/2167-841ad2a0e705/bill/HB1591.json
Package observed: 2026-07-17T02:17:01+00:00