---
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).