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Bill Early care and learning; safety of children in early care and education programs; revise certain provisions A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 1A of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to early care and learning, so as to revise certain provisions relating to the safety of children in early care and education programs; to authorize hearsay in preliminary hearings regarding emergency closure of a program or the emergency placement of a monitor or monitors; to revise the definition of "crime" for purposes of background checks; to provide that background checks are not valid if an individual has been separated from employment for more than 180 consecutive days from an early care and education program; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes. us/states/ga Georgia General Assembly 2017_18 HB 494 Georgia HB 494 (2017_18)
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Brooks Coleman
Joyce Chandler
Katie Dempsey
Mike Glanton
0 16 1 2017-02-24 2018-07-01 openstates ocd-bill/963f5757-4b44-4c20-8a02-34f8964dbe07 http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl ea003813375094f2cf81424463f31c163ae6eba03db4c303b4ff2d05165c60a9 2026-07-01 https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump 2026-07-06 reported
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Georgia HB 494 (2017_18) — Early care and learning; safety of children in early care and education programs; revise certain provisions

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 1A of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to early care and learning, so as to revise certain provisions relating to the safety of children in early care and education programs; to authorize hearsay in preliminary hearings regarding emergency closure of a program or the emergency placement of a monitor or monitors; to revise the definition of "crime" for purposes of background checks; to provide that background checks are not valid if an individual has been separated from employment for more than 180 consecutive days from an early care and education program; 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 — 1701 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • Amy Carter — primary (person)
  • Brooks Coleman — primary (person)
  • Joyce Chandler — primary (person)
  • Katie Dempsey — primary (person)
  • Mike Glanton — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2017-02-24 House Hopper
  • 2017-02-27 House First Readers reading-1
  • 2017-02-28 House Second Readers reading-2
  • 2018-02-23 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
  • 2018-02-28 House Third Readers reading-3
  • 2018-02-28 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
  • 2018-03-01 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
  • 2018-03-14 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
  • 2018-03-15 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
  • 2018-03-21 Senate Third Read reading-3
  • 2018-03-21 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
  • 2018-03-29 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
  • 2018-04-05 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
  • 2018-05-08 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
  • 2018-05-08 Act 561 executive-signature
  • 2018-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/963f5757-4b44-4c20-8a02-34f8964dbe07. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).