2025-2026 Regular Session

SB557

Education; various provisions regarding student discipline and working conditions of teachers and other school personnel; revise

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapters 2 and 14 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to elementary and secondary education and education accountability, respectively, so as to revise various provisions regarding student discipline and working conditions of teachers and other school personnel; to provide for an effective date and applicability; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

Current disposition: Pending: Senate Education and Youth
Last status date: February 25, 2026
Last status update: Senate Read and Referred
Pending committee: Education and Youth
Author: Chuck Payne
Co-sponsors: John Albers Jason Anavitarte Carden Summers Billy Hickman Shawn Still Russ Goodman Drew Echols

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Committee referrals

February 25, 2026 · Senate

Education and Youth

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.

February 25, 2026
Senate Senate Read and Referred
February 24, 2026
Senate Senate Hopper

Source provenance

LegiScan bill ID: 2123574
LegiScan session ID: 2167
Source file: var/states/georgia/source/legiscan/2167-841ad2a0e705/bill/SB557.json
Package observed: 2026-07-17T02:17:01+00:00