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type: "Bill"
title: "Education; establishment of an innovative assessment pilot program; provide"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to education, so as to provide for the establishment of an innovative assessment pilot program; to provide for participating local school systems; to provide exemptions from certain state-wide assessment requirements; to provide for an annual report; to provide for revised accountability requirements; 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 362"
citation: "Georgia SB 362 (2017_18)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blake Tillery", "Burt Jones", "Butch Miller", "Chuck Payne", "Chuck Hufstetler", "Dean Burke", "Donzella James", "Elena Parent", "Ellis Black", "Fran Millar", "Frank Ginn", "Freddie Sims", "Jesse Stone", "John Kennedy", "John Wilkinson", "Kay Kirkpatrick", "Lee Anderson", "Lindsey Tippins", "Matt Brass", "Michael 'Doc' Rhett", "Tyler Harper"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 15
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2018-01-29"
last_action: "2018-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fbcdbc07-6395-40bb-8755-10415b4248bd"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "4142b7ef901e52567e98c79d2e455eaeb519fb484d9e6d8b5d330ba7747fe2ff"
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 362 (2017_18) — Education; establishment of an innovative assessment pilot program; provide
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to education, so as to provide for the establishment of an innovative assessment pilot program; to provide for participating local school systems; to provide exemptions from certain state-wide assessment requirements; to provide for an annual report; to provide for revised accountability requirements; 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
- Blake Tillery — primary (person)
- Burt Jones — primary (person)
- Butch Miller — primary (person)
- Chuck Payne — primary (person)
- Chuck Hufstetler — primary (person)
- Dean Burke — primary (person)
- Donzella James — primary (person)
- Elena Parent — primary (person)
- Ellis Black — primary (person)
- Fran Millar — primary (person)
- Frank Ginn — primary (person)
- Freddie Sims — primary (person)
- Jesse Stone — primary (person)
- John Kennedy — primary (person)
- John Wilkinson — primary (person)
- Kay Kirkpatrick — primary (person)
- Lee Anderson — primary (person)
- Lindsey Tippins — primary (person)
- Matt Brass — primary (person)
- Michael 'Doc' Rhett — primary (person)
- Tyler Harper — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-01-29** Senate Hopper
- **2018-01-30** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-08** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-12** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2018-02-15** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2018-02-15** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2018-02-20** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2018-02-21** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2018-03-09** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-29** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2018-03-29** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2018-04-05** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2018-05-08** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-08** Act 484 `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/fbcdbc07-6395-40bb-8755-10415b4248bd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).