GA HR1800

Recognizes and commends Speaker Pro Tempore Jan Jones upon her retirement after more than two decades of service in the Georgia House of Representatives, first elected in 2002

Honors Jones as the longest-serving Speaker Pro Tempore in United States history, elected to that position in 2010 as the first woman to hold the role and the highest-ranking woman in Georgia legislative history

Notes she served as Georgia's first female Speaker of the House during a 2022 leadership transition and was the first and only woman to serve as a conferee on the General Assembly's budget

Credits her with key education policy achievements including strengthening the HOPE Scholarship with STEM grade weighting, expanding Georgia's Pre-K program, and establishing regional public schools for at-risk students

Recognizes her role in creating the City of Milton through the successful 2006 cityhood referendum, earning her the title "Mother of Milton"