2025-2026 Regular Session

SB595

State Board of Education; establish a student personal development and career readiness program; authorize

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 authorize the State Board of Education to establish a student personal development and career readiness program; to provide for the selection of third-party providers to administer the program; to provide requirements for approved program providers; to provide for disbursement of funds to approved program providers; to provide for reporting; to provide for definitions; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

Current disposition: Pending: Senate Education and Youth
Last status date: February 26, 2026
Last status update: Senate Read and Referred
Pending committee: Education and Youth
Author: Donzella James
Co-sponsors: Michael Rhett Jaha Howard Randal Mangham RaShaun Kemp Kim Jackson Tonya Anderson Elena Parent Kenya Wicks Gail Davenport Sally Harrell Sonya Halpern Nan Orrock

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Committee referrals

February 26, 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 26, 2026
Senate Senate Read and Referred
February 25, 2026
Senate Senate Hopper

Source provenance

LegiScan bill ID: 2124827
LegiScan session ID: 2167
Source file: var/states/georgia/source/legiscan/2167-841ad2a0e705/bill/SB595.json
Package observed: 2026-07-17T02:17:01+00:00