Georgia Code
Subpart 2 - Compulsory Attendance
§ 20-2-697. Cooperation of Principals and Teachers in Public Schools With Visiting Teachers and Attendance Officers; Attendance Reports and Records Kept by Public Schools; Letter Indicating Enrollment

(a.1) Any student shall have the right to request and receive, within three business days from the date of such request, a letter from his or her school administrator indicating that the student is enrolled full-time and has an attendance record in good standing for the current academic year.
History. Ga. L. 1945, p. 343, § 9; Ga. L. 1969, p. 838, § 4; Ga. L. 1981, p. 829, § 1; Ga. L. 1984, p. 1266, § 5; Ga. L. 1989, p. 808, § 3; Ga. L. 1997, p. 760, § 5; Ga. L. 2000, p. 618, §§ 63, 94; Ga. L. 2004, p. 107, § 11A; Ga. L. 2015, p. 60, § 3-4/SB 100.
The 2015 amendment, effective July 1, 2015, in subsection (a), substituted “verification of enrollment by the Department of Driver Services” for “verification of attendance by the Department of Public Safety” near the end of the fifth sentence. See editor’s note for applicability.
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 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. 2015, p. 60, § 6-1/SB 100, not codified by the General Assembly, provides, in part, that this Act 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).

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