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| Bill | "Creating Opportunities Needed Now to Expand Credentialed Training (CONNECT) Act"; enact | 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 enact the "Creating Opportunities Needed Now to Expand Credentialed Training (CONNECT) Act"; to provide for industry credentialing for students who complete certain focused programs of study; to provide for industry credentialing in individual graduation plans; to provide for the identification of certain critical and emerging occupations; to provide for a short title; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes. | us/states/ga | Georgia General Assembly | 2017_18 | SB 3 | Georgia SB 3 (2017_18) |
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0 | 22 | 1 | 2017-01-20 | 2018-07-01 | openstates | ocd-bill/ebeaaf70-c35f-4ada-b07c-c1e5d44a9345 | http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl | 91f5d5d8ccad38617ae8c1ab99bcf71bf4b4957d034d02300c8e2fd014743b25 | 2026-07-01 | https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump | 2026-07-06 | reported |
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Georgia SB 3 (2017_18) — "Creating Opportunities Needed Now to Expand Credentialed Training (CONNECT) Act"; enact
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 enact the "Creating Opportunities Needed Now to Expand Credentialed Training (CONNECT) Act"; to provide for industry credentialing for students who complete certain focused programs of study; to provide for industry credentialing in individual graduation plans; to provide for the identification of certain critical and emerging occupations; to provide for a short title; 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 — 52–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
- Bill Cowsert — primary (person)
- Freddie Sims — primary (person)
- John Kennedy — primary (person)
- John Wilkinson — primary (person)
- Lee Anderson — primary (person)
- Lindsey Tippins — primary (person)
- Matt Brass — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2017-01-20 Senate Hopper
- 2017-01-23 Senate Read and Referred
referral-committee - 2017-02-14 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute
committee-passage-favorable - 2017-02-15 Senate Read Second Time
reading-2 - 2017-02-17 Senate Third Read
reading-3 - 2017-02-17 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute
passage - 2017-02-21 House First Readers
reading-1 - 2017-02-22 House Second Readers
reading-2 - 2017-03-22 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute
committee-passage-favorable - 2017-03-24 House Postponed
- 2017-03-28 House Third Readers
reading-3 - 2017-03-28 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute
passage - 2017-03-30 Senate Disagreed House Amend or Sub
- 2017-03-30 House Insisted
- 2017-03-30 Senate Conference Committee Appointed 37th, 50th, 40th
- 2017-03-30 House Conference Committee Appointed 14th, 150th, 178th
- 2018-03-09 House Conference Committee Report Adopted
- 2018-03-14 Senate Conference Committee Report Adopted
- 2018-04-05 Senate Sent to Governor
executive-receipt - 2018-05-08 Senate Date Signed by Governor
executive-signature - 2018-05-08 Act 446
executive-signature - 2018-07-01 Effective Date
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ebeaaf70-c35f-4ada-b07c-c1e5d44a9345. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).