The Caregiver Educational Consent Act; enact
Summary
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 1 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general education provisions, so as to provide for a kinship caregiver to give legal consent in the form of an affidavit for a child residing with such kinship caregiver to receive educational services and medical services directly related to academic enrollment and to participate in curricular or extracurricular activities for which parental consent is usually required; to provide a short title; to provide for definitions; to provide that falsifying a kinship caregiver's affidavit shall constitute false swearing; to provide an affidavit form; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
Bill status
passed
3 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2017
Committee Review
Mar 2017
House Passage
Mar 2017
Senate Passage
Governor
Introduced Feb 10, 2017
Last action Mar 3, 2017
Floor votes
How they voted
This bill passed the House by voice vote (no roll call recorded).
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
7
Key actions
2
Committee
2
Mar 3, 2017
Committee
Senate Read and Referred
upper
Mar 1, 2017
Lower · Passed
House Passed/Adopted
lower
Feb 21, 2017
Lower · Passed
House Committee Favorably Reported
lower
4 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Carolyn Hugley
DDemocratic
P
Karen Bennett
DDemocratic
P
Stacey Abrams
DDemocratic
P
Tommy Benton
RRepublican
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