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type: "Bill"
title: "\"Green Agricultural Education Act\"; three-component model; provide"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 6 of Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the \"Quality Basic Education Act,\" so as to provide that the agricultural education program in this state is based on a three-component model; to provide for a pilot program to develop and implement agricultural education in elementary schools; to provide for selection of pilot sites; to provide for program requirements; to provide for a program evaluation; to provide for the Professional Standards Commission to extend in-field certification for agricultural education to include kindergarten through grade five; to provide for related matters; to provide for a short title; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2017_18"
identifier: "SB 330"
citation: "Georgia SB 330 (2017_18)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David Shafer", "Dean Burke", "Ellis Black", "Frank Ginn", "Freddie Sims", "Jeff Mullis", "John Wilkinson", "Lawrence Walker III", "Lee Anderson", "Lindsey Tippins", "Tyler Harper"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 16
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2018-01-18"
last_action: "2018-04-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b59bff99-0909-4f27-b34d-c7276d5c00d1"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "df1534ad7fe55badb6ae5a9a21cb55d8172fa83e85c4a35b7432156f54799192"
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 330 (2017_18) — "Green Agricultural Education Act"; three-component model; provide
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 6 of Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the "Quality Basic Education Act," so as to provide that the agricultural education program in this state is based on a three-component model; to provide for a pilot program to develop and implement agricultural education in elementary schools; to provide for selection of pilot sites; to provide for program requirements; to provide for a program evaluation; to provide for the Professional Standards Commission to extend in-field certification for agricultural education to include kindergarten through grade five; to provide for related matters; to provide for a short title; to provide for an effective date; 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 — **530** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- David Shafer — primary (person)
- Dean Burke — primary (person)
- Ellis Black — primary (person)
- Frank Ginn — primary (person)
- Freddie Sims — primary (person)
- Jeff Mullis — primary (person)
- John Wilkinson — primary (person)
- Lawrence Walker III — primary (person)
- Lee Anderson — primary (person)
- Lindsey Tippins — primary (person)
- Tyler Harper — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-01-18** Senate Hopper
- **2018-01-19** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-05** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-06** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2018-02-20** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2018-02-20** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2018-02-21** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2018-02-22** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2018-03-09** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-15** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2018-03-15** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2018-03-29** Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
- **2018-04-05** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2018-04-27** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2018-04-27** Act 294 `executive-signature`
- **2018-04-27** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b59bff99-0909-4f27-b34d-c7276d5c00d1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).