Georgia House Bill 917

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Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 2)
Status: Introduced on April 2 2025 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2026-01-12 - House Second Readers
Pending: House Education Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

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 provide generally for open enrollment processes for students to transfer between local school systems and between schools within local school systems; to provide for rules, regulations, and policies; to prohibit discrimination; to prohibit charging tuition for transfers between local school systems, subject to an exception; to provide for appeals of denials of transfer requests; to provide for the submission and publication of reports; to revise the calculations for equalization grants; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

Education; open enrollment processes for students to transfer between local school systems and between schools within local school systems; provide

Rep. Todd Jones [R]

Rep. Scott Hilton [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2026-01-12	House	House Second Readers
2025-04-04	House	House First Readers
2025-04-02	House	House Hopper

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.legis.ga.gov/legislation/72008
Text	https://www.legis.ga.gov/api/legislation/document/20252026/238880