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Committee advances substitute for release-time policy requiring background checks and adding liability protections
Summary
The House Committee on Education advanced a substitute for House Bill 133 (LC492330) that lets local education agencies choose whether to adopt release‑time policies, requires criminal background checks for providers of release‑time courses, and adds a liability shield for local officials in specified transit circumstances.
The Georgia House Committee on Education took HB 133 (substitute LC492330) off the table, considered changes introduced in a substitute and voted to report the measure favorably. The substitute alters earlier language to make adoption of release-time policies permissive and adds new safeguards for local school systems.
What changed in the substitute The sponsor explained three main edits in the substitute bill: the word “shall” in an earlier provision was changed to “may” to make local adoption…
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