republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/sb-355.md

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Bill	"Student/Teacher Protection Act"; enact; end punitive testing consequences; related to federal, state,and locally mandated standardized assessments	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the O.C.G.A., relating to elementary and secondary education, so as to enact the "Student/Teacher Protection Act"; to end punitive testing consequences for both teachers and students related to federal, state, and locally mandated standardized assessments; to prevent truancy or referrals to the Division of Family and Children Services for absenteeism during standardized testing windows for federal, state, and locally mandated standardized assessments unless a student already has a chronic history of truancy; to provide for a short title; to provide for legislative findings; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	SB 355	Georgia SB 355 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Burt Jones David Shafer Hunter Hill John Albers Joshua McKoon Judson Hill Marty Harbin Michael Williams P. K. Martin IV Renee Unterman William Ligon, Jr.	5	17	1	2016-02-09	2016-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/75ceb803-a646-449f-99db-edac295eeb3c	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	bb606c991cdc28425e34508d2a6837c234b55faafe18a9061023d570ea573095	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 355 (2015_16) — "Student/Teacher Protection Act"; enact; end punitive testing consequences; related to federal, state,and locally mandated standardized assessments

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the O.C.G.A., relating to elementary and secondary education, so as to enact the "Student/Teacher Protection Act"; to end punitive testing consequences for both teachers and students related to federal, state, and locally mandated standardized assessments; to prevent truancy or referrals to the Division of Family and Children Services for absenteeism during standardized testing windows for federal, state, and locally mandated standardized assessments unless a student already has a chronic history of truancy; to provide for a short title; to provide for legislative findings; 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.

1. As introduced LC 33 6466ER (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 33 6553ERS (committee substitute) — source
4. Floor Amendment AM 33 1667 (committee substitute) — source
5. SB 355/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• MOTION TO TABLE — 38–16 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Burt Jones — primary (person)
• David Shafer — primary (person)
• Hunter Hill — primary (person)
• John Albers — primary (person)
• Joshua McKoon — primary (person)
• Judson Hill — primary (person)
• Marty Harbin — primary (person)
• Michael Williams — primary (person)
• P. K. Martin IV — primary (person)
• Renee Unterman — primary (person)
• William Ligon, Jr. — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-09 Senate Hopper
• 2016-02-10 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2016-02-25 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-02-26 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2016-02-29 Senate Tabled
• 2016-02-29 Senate Taken from Table
• 2016-02-29 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2016-02-29 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2016-03-02 House First Readers reading-1
• 2016-03-07 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2016-03-11 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-03-24 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2016-03-24 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2016-03-29 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2016-05-03 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2016-05-03 Veto V15 executive-signature
• 2016-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/75ceb803-a646-449f-99db-edac295eeb3c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).