---
type: "Bill"
title: "Elementary and secondary education; annual performance evaluations; revise certain provisions"
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 revise certain provisions relating to annual performance evaluations; to provide for the development of evaluation systems for teachers of record, assistant principals, and principals; to provide for confidentiality and exceptions; to provide for the reporting of certain evaluation results to the Professional Standards Commission; to revise provisions relating to annual contracts; to revise provisions for purposes of conformity; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date and applicability; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2013_14"
identifier: "HB 244"
citation: "Georgia HB 244 (2013_14)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alisha Morgan", "Brooks Coleman", "Howard Maxwell", "Margaret Kaiser", "Randy Nix", "Tom Dickson"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 15
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2013-02-07"
last_action: "2014-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/18647f53-e4df-4d9c-afdb-fb9cd8efd4ae"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "68b323df7cd85af5afc02d51efa61a9984cc9f184b20a311a795cbf9da0a4d20"
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 HB 244 (2013_14) — Elementary and secondary education; annual performance evaluations; revise certain provisions

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 revise certain provisions relating to annual performance evaluations; to provide for the development of evaluation systems for teachers of record, assistant principals, and principals; to provide for confidentiality and exceptions; to provide for the reporting of certain evaluation results to the Professional Standards Commission; to revise provisions relating to annual contracts; to revise provisions for purposes of conformity; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date and applicability; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **HB 244/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/136565.pdf)
2. **LC 33 4991/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/130101.pdf)
3. **LC 33 5076S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/131399.pdf)
4. **LC 33 5119S/rcs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/132817.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **151–21** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Alisha Morgan — primary (person)
- Brooks Coleman — primary (person)
- Howard Maxwell — primary (person)
- Margaret Kaiser — primary (person)
- Randy Nix — primary (person)
- Tom Dickson — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2013-02-07** House Hopper
- **2013-02-08** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2013-02-11** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2013-02-20** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2013-02-28** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2013-02-28** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2013-03-01** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2013-03-22** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2013-03-22** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2013-03-26** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2013-03-26** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2013-04-03** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2013-05-07** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2013-05-07** Act 336 `executive-signature`
- **2014-07-01** Effective Date

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/18647f53-e4df-4d9c-afdb-fb9cd8efd4ae`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).