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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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Lindsey Tippins
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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 — 520 (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).