republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2013-14/hb-354.md

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Bill	Early Care and Learning, Department of; provide certain information to owners of early care and education programs; require	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 20 of the O.C.G.A., relating to education, so as to revise terminology relating to early care and learning; to require the Department of Early Care and Learning to provide certain information to owners of early care and education programs; to authorize the department to administer certain programs; to expand the purposes of the "Georgia Professional Standards Act;"; to authorize the Professional Standards Commission to perform certain functions and services with respect to early care and education program personnel if funding is available; to provide for statutory construction; to amend various other titles of the O.C.G.A., for purposes of conformity; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2013_14	HB 354	Georgia HB 354 (2013_14)	bill		enacted	Alisha Morgan Brooks Coleman Jan Tankersley Margaret Kaiser Randy Nix Valerie Clark	5	15	1	2013-02-14	2013-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/75705c82-855e-4be0-9717-a992c452c427	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	aa98ce0e0f356151c8eeef3a4f04e1af1d4ab38c3becdfce4ec323876786c800	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 354 (2013_14) — Early Care and Learning, Department of; provide certain information to owners of early care and education programs; require

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 20 of the O.C.G.A., relating to education, so as to revise terminology relating to early care and learning; to require the Department of Early Care and Learning to provide certain information to owners of early care and education programs; to authorize the department to administer certain programs; to expand the purposes of the "Georgia Professional Standards Act;"; to authorize the Professional Standards Commission to perform certain functions and services with respect to early care and education program personnel if funding is available; to provide for statutory construction; to amend various other titles of the O.C.G.A., for purposes of conformity; 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. HB 354/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 33 5016/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 33 5118S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 33 5118S/hs (committee substitute) — source
5. Sen floor amend 1 AM 36 0424ER (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 153–16 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Alisha Morgan — primary (person)
• Brooks Coleman — primary (person)
• Jan Tankersley — primary (person)
• Margaret Kaiser — primary (person)
• Randy Nix — primary (person)
• Valerie Clark — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-02-14 House Hopper
• 2013-02-19 House First Readers reading-1
• 2013-02-20 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2013-02-26 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-03-04 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2013-03-04 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2013-03-05 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2013-03-20 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-03-21 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2013-03-25 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2013-03-25 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2013-04-03 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2013-04-24 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2013-04-24 Act 32 executive-signature
• 2013-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/75705c82-855e-4be0-9717-a992c452c427. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).