Excellent Teacher Preparation Act; enact
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Officially: “A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 10 of Article 17 of Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to professional standards, so as to require the Professional Standards Commission to develop and report annual performance measures that evaluate the performance...” Read the full text
2025-2026 regular session
What it does
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 10 of Article 17 of Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to professional standards, so as to require the Professional Standards Commission to develop and report annual performance measures that evaluate the performance of each educator preparation provider (EPP) in the state; to provide for minimum contents of EPP performance measures; to provide for definitions; to provide for a short title; to provide for related m
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Where it is
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House Hopper · Jan 29, 2026
House First Readers · Feb 2, 2026
House Second Readers · Feb 3, 2026
House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute · Feb 20, 2026
House Third Readers · Feb 26, 2026
House Passed/Adopted By Substitute · Feb 26, 2026
Senate Read and Referred · Mar 3, 2026
Senate Committee Favorably Reported · Mar 12, 2026
Senate Read Second Time · Mar 16, 2026
Senate Tabled · Mar 27, 2026
Senate Taken from Table · Mar 27, 2026
Senate Third Read · Mar 27, 2026
Senate Passed/Adopted · Mar 27, 2026
House Sent to Governor · Apr 10, 2026
House Date Signed by Governor · May 5, 2026
Act 396 · May 5, 2026
Effective Date · Jul 1, 2026
The numbers
7
sponsors on the bill
Sponsors
Recorded votes
PASSAGESenate · 2026-03-27 · yea 49, nay 0, notVoting 2, excused 5
PASSAGEHouse · 2026-02-26 · yea 166, nay 0, notVoting 7, excused 7
Roll-call results shown verbatim from the Georgia legislature’s records. A result reflects that roll call’s own motion, not the bill’s overall outcome.
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