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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Joint Study Committee on the Establishment of a State Accreditation Process; create"
+description: "A RESOLUTION creating the Joint Study Committee on the Establishment of a State Accreditation Process; and for other purposes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
+legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
+session: "2017_18"
+identifier: "HR 898"
+citation: "Georgia HR 898 (2017_18)"
+classification: ["resolution"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Brooks Coleman", "Jan Jones", "Kevin Tanner", "Randy Nix", "Robert Dickey", "Valencia Stovall"]
+version_count: 0
+action_count: 17
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2018-01-18"
+last_action: "2018-05-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4d32214c-a23f-4495-84e0-b83f70274970"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "09b5e9f8c6ae14f2a8004a0fa6eea6bf08b1c2f632c36689ef16d712ee105192"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ga"]
+---
+
+# Georgia HR 898 (2017_18) — Joint Study Committee on the Establishment of a State Accreditation Process; create
+
+A RESOLUTION creating the Joint Study Committee on the Establishment of a State Accreditation Process; and for other purposes.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+
+## Votes
+
+- ADOPT — **170–1** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Brooks Coleman — primary (person)
+- Jan Jones — primary (person)
+- Kevin Tanner — primary (person)
+- Randy Nix — primary (person)
+- Robert Dickey — primary (person)
+- Valencia Stovall — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-01-18** House Hopper
+- **2018-01-19** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2018-01-22** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2018-02-06** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-02-14** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2018-02-14** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2018-02-15** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-09** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-12** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2018-03-27** Senate Tabled
+- **2018-03-29** Senate Taken from Table
+- **2018-03-29** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2018-03-29** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2018-04-03** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2018-05-08** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2018-05-08** Act 540 `executive-signature`
+- **2018-05-08** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4d32214c-a23f-4495-84e0-b83f70274970`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+