Georgia Code
Part 15 - Miscellaneous Provisions
§ 20-2-320. State-Wide Comprehensive Educational Information System; Identification of Data to Implement Quality Basic Education Program

History. Code 1981, § 20-2-306 , enacted by Ga. L. 1985, p. 1657, § 1; Code 1981, § 20-2-320 , as redesignated by Ga. L. 1987, p. 1169, § 1; Ga. L. 1988, p. 1848, § 3; Ga. L. 1990, p. 1256, § 3; Ga. L. 1997, p. 760, § 3; Ga. L. 2000, p. 618, § 58; Ga. L. 2001, p. 4, § 20; Ga. L. 2004, p. 107, § 8; Ga. L. 2004, p. 645, § 16; Ga. L. 2005, p. 60, § 20/HB 95; Ga. L. 2005, p. 798, § 5/SB 35; Ga. L. 2008, p. VO1, § 1-10/HB 529; Ga. L. 2008, p. 335, § 2/SB 435; Ga. L. 2008, p. 1015, § 7/SB 344; Ga. L. 2011, p. 632, § 3/HB 49; Ga. L. 2014, p. 866, § 20/SB 340; Ga. L. 2015, p. 5, § 20/HB 90; Ga. L. 2015, p. 60, § 3-1/SB 100; Ga. L. 2016, p. 846, § 20/HB 737.
The 2014 amendment, effective April 29, 2014, part of an Act to revise, modernize, and correct the Code, in subsection (c), in the first sentence, substituted “Senate Budget and Evaluation Office” for “Senate Budget Office”, substituted “House Budget and Research Office” for “House Budget Office”, and substituted “House and Senate Appropriation Committees, the House Committee on Education, the Senate Education and Youth Committee, the House Committee on Higher Education, and the Senate Higher Education Committee” for “House and Senate Appropriations, Education, Education and Youth, and Higher Education committees” in the last sentence.
The 2015 amendments. —
The first 2015 amendment, effective March 13, 2015, part of an Act to revise, modernize, and correct the Code, in subsection (c), substituted “and the House Budget and Research Office” for “the House Budget and Research Office; the House Research Office; and the Senate Research Office” in the first sentence, and substituted “Appropriations Committees” for “Appropriation Committee” in the next-to-last sentence. The second 2015 amendment, effective July 1, 2015, substituted “Driver Services” for “Public Safety” and substituted “expulsion” for “attendance” in subsection (f).
The 2016 amendment, effective May 3, 2016, part of an Act to revise, modernize, and correct the Code, deleted “recommended by the steering committee and” following “data specifications” near the end of the first sentence of subsection (b).
Code Commission notes.
The amendments of subsection (a) of this Code section by Ga. L. 2008, p. VO1, §§ 1-10/HB 529, and Ga. L. 2008, p. 335, § 2/SB 435, irreconcilably conflicted with and were treated as superseded by Ga. L. 2008, p. 1015, § 7/SB 344. See County of Butts v. Strahan, 151 Ga. 417 (1921).
Editor’s notes.
Ga. L. 1997, p. 760, § 27(a), not codified by the General Assembly, provides: “Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b) of this Code section, this Act shall become effective on July 1, 1997, and shall apply to offenses committed on or after that date and, except for subsection (b.1) of Code Section 40-5-67.1 as enacted by this Act, this Act shall not apply to offenses committed prior to that date.”
Ga. L. 2000, p. 618, § 1, not codified by the General Assembly, provides: “This Act shall be known and may be cited as the ‘A Plus Education Reform Act of 2000.’”
Ga. L. 2008, p. VO1, which amended this Code section, was passed by the General Assembly as HB 529 at the 2007 regular session but vetoed by the Governor on May 30, 2007. The General Assembly overrode that veto on January 28, 2008, and the Act became effective on that date.
Ga. L. 2015, p. 60, § 6-1/SB 100, not codified by the General Assembly, provides in part that the amendment of this Code section shall apply to offenses which occur on or after July 1, 2015.
Law reviews.
For article commenting on the 1997 amendment of this Code section, see 14 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 203 (1997).