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GA SB431

Bill

Status

Engrossed

2/6/2026

Primary Sponsor

Kay Kirkpatrick

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Origin

Senate

2025-2026 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Schools must enroll foster care students within two school days of an enrollment request from a parent or legal custodian, either permanently or provisionally

  • Foster care students cannot be assigned to remote learning solely because the school has not received their critical records from previous schools

  • Schools that fail to meet the two-day enrollment requirement must immediately provide the parent or legal custodian with contact information for the RESA student affairs officer and the Department of Education's chief privacy officer

  • The Department of Education may require noncompliant schools to follow a corrective action plan based on recommendations from the chief privacy officer or RESA student affairs officer

  • General provisional enrollment for non-foster students allows up to ten school days of conditional enrollment while awaiting records from schools attended in the previous 24 months

Legislative Description

Education; enrollment of foster care students within two school days of a request for enrollment by such student's parent or legal custodian; require

Last Action

House Second Readers

2/10/2026

Committee Referrals

Education2/9/2026
Children and Families1/29/2026

Full Bill Text

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