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+type: "Bill"
+title: "\"Creating Opportunities Needed Now to Expand Credentialed Training (CONNECT) Act\"; enact"
+description: "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 enact the \"Creating Opportunities Needed Now to Expand Credentialed Training (CONNECT) Act\"; to provide for industry credentialing for students who complete certain focused programs of study; to provide for industry credentialing in individual graduation plans; to provide for the identification of certain critical and emerging occupations; to provide for a short title; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
+legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
+session: "2017_18"
+identifier: "SB 3"
+citation: "Georgia SB 3 (2017_18)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bill Cowsert", "Freddie Sims", "John Kennedy", "John Wilkinson", "Lee Anderson", "Lindsey Tippins", "Matt Brass"]
+version_count: 0
+action_count: 22
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2017-01-20"
+last_action: "2018-07-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ebeaaf70-c35f-4ada-b07c-c1e5d44a9345"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "91f5d5d8ccad38617ae8c1ab99bcf71bf4b4957d034d02300c8e2fd014743b25"
+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 SB 3 (2017_18) — "Creating Opportunities Needed Now to Expand Credentialed Training (CONNECT) Act"; enact
+
+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 enact the "Creating Opportunities Needed Now to Expand Credentialed Training (CONNECT) Act"; to provide for industry credentialing for students who complete certain focused programs of study; to provide for industry credentialing in individual graduation plans; to provide for the identification of certain critical and emerging occupations; to provide for a short title; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — **52–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bill Cowsert — primary (person)
+- Freddie Sims — primary (person)
+- John Kennedy — primary (person)
+- John Wilkinson — primary (person)
+- Lee Anderson — primary (person)
+- Lindsey Tippins — primary (person)
+- Matt Brass — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-01-20** Senate Hopper
+- **2017-01-23** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-14** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-02-15** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2017-02-17** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2017-02-17** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2017-02-21** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2017-02-22** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2017-03-22** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-24** House Postponed
+- **2017-03-28** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2017-03-28** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2017-03-30** Senate Disagreed House Amend or Sub
+- **2017-03-30** House Insisted
+- **2017-03-30** Senate Conference Committee Appointed 37th, 50th, 40th
+- **2017-03-30** House Conference Committee Appointed 14th, 150th, 178th
+- **2018-03-09** House Conference Committee Report Adopted
+- **2018-03-14** Senate Conference Committee Report Adopted
+- **2018-04-05** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2018-05-08** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2018-05-08** Act 446 `executive-signature`
+- **2018-07-01** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ebeaaf70-c35f-4ada-b07c-c1e5d44a9345`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+