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Georgia HB127

EDUCATIONENGROSSED

Education; number of accumulated sick leave days for teachers and other school personnel; increase from three to five

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 4 of Article 17 of Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to sick, personal, and maternity leave for teachers and other school personnel, so as to increase from three to five the number of accumulated sick leave days teachers and other school personnel may take each school year for personal or professional reasons; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

Legislative Session

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2025-2026 Regular Session

Selected quotes

No local education agency or postsecondary institution shall promote, support, or maintain any programs or activities that advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion. Diversity, equity, and inclusion includes: [...] (2) Any effort to promote or promulgate policies and procedures designed or implemented with reference to race, color, sex, ethnicity, national origin, gender identity, or sexual orientation; (3) Any effort to promote or promulgate any training, programming, recruitment, retention, or activities designed or implemented with preferential treatment of any race, color, sex, ethnicity, national origin, gender identity, or sexual orientation over another; (4) Any effort to promote or promulgate any training, programming, or activities designed or implemented with reference to race, color, ethnicity, gender identity, or sexual orientation; and (5) With respect to a postsecondary institution, any effort to promote, as the official position of the postsecondary institution, a particular, widely contested opinion referencing [...] allyship, gender ideology or theory, microaggressions, group marginalization, [...] social justice, intersectionality, neopronouns, heteronormativity, disparate impact, racial privilege, sexual privilege, or any similar or related formulation of these concepts.

(d) Any postsecondary institution that violates subsection (b) of this Code section shall be subject to the withholding of state funding or state administered federal funding.

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Calendar

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2025-03-2700:00Hearing450 CAPSenate Education And Youth Committee: Upon Adjournment Of The Senate Rules Committee
2025-03-2715:00Hearing450 CAPSenate Education And Youth Committee
2025-03-2713:00Hearing450 CAPSenate Education And Youth Committee
2025-02-2715:00Hearing506 CLOBHouse Education
2025-02-2713:00Hearing506 CLOBHouse Education (upon Adjournment)
2025-02-2713:00Hearing506 CLOBHouse Education
2025-02-2609:00Hearing515 CLOBHouse Education Subcommittee On Policy

History

DateAction
2025-03-28Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute
2025-03-28Senate Read Second Time
2025-03-10Senate Read and Referred
2025-03-06House Third Readers
2025-03-06House Passed/Adopted
2025-02-28House Committee Favorably Reported
2025-01-29House Second Readers
2025-01-28House First Readers
2025-01-27House Hopper