---
type: "Bill"
title: "Individual Graduation Plans; guidance in career oriented aptitudes and career interests; provide"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 20-2-327 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to recognition of advanced proficiency/honors courses and counseling and development of individual graduation plans, so as to provide for guidance in career oriented aptitudes and career interests in developing an individual graduation plan; to provide for a review and report of a school counselor's role, workload, program service delivery, and professional learning; to provide for legislative findings; to provide for automatic repeal; 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 401"
citation: "Georgia SB 401 (2017_18)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Donzella James", "Elena Parent", "Fran Millar", "Freddie Sims", "Horacena Tate", "Jesse Stone", "John Wilkinson", "Lindsey Tippins", "Matt Brass"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 17
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2018-02-07"
last_action: "2018-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4568b5b5-7f93-4bda-b19e-6dd1df51ca3f"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "718ea5ee0d1bf7ef8247c5380d6c9010b78871ef68832fbc832c7fb668cbb2e4"
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 401 (2017_18) — Individual Graduation Plans; guidance in career oriented aptitudes and career interests; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 20-2-327 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to recognition of advanced proficiency/honors courses and counseling and development of individual graduation plans, so as to provide for guidance in career oriented aptitudes and career interests in developing an individual graduation plan; to provide for a review and report of a school counselor's role, workload, program service delivery, and professional learning; to provide for legislative findings; to provide for automatic repeal; 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 — **51–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Donzella James — primary (person)
- Elena Parent — primary (person)
- Fran Millar — primary (person)
- Freddie Sims — primary (person)
- Horacena Tate — primary (person)
- Jesse Stone — primary (person)
- John Wilkinson — primary (person)
- Lindsey Tippins — primary (person)
- Matt Brass — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-07** Senate Hopper
- **2018-02-08** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-15** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-20** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2018-02-28** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2018-02-28** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2018-03-01** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2018-03-05** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2018-03-09** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-27** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2018-03-27** House Passed/Adopted As Amended `passage`
- **2018-03-29** Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub As Amended
- **2018-03-29** House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
- **2018-04-05** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2018-05-08** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-08** Act 449 `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/4568b5b5-7f93-4bda-b19e-6dd1df51ca3f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).