2020 Georgia Code
Title 20 - Education
Chapter 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education
Article 17 - Teachers and Other School Personnel
Part 10 - Professional Standards
- § 20-2-981. Short Title
- § 20-2-982. Purpose
- § 20-2-982.1. Definitions
- § 20-2-983. Professional Standards Commission - Creation; Composition; Terms, Qualifications, Appointment, and Removal of Members; Filling of Vacancies
- § 20-2-984. Professional Standards Commission - Authority to Create and Implement Standards and Procedures for Certifying Educational Personnel; Recommending Standards and Procedures for Certification; Continuation of Teaching Certificates; Restrictions
- § 20-2-984.1. Professional Standards Commission - Adoption of Standards of Performance and a Code of Ethics
- § 20-2-984.2. Professional Standards Commission - Reports of Criminal Offenses to Local Boards of Education; Requests by Local Boards for Investigation; Immunity
- § 20-2-984.3. Professional Standards Commission - Preliminary Investigations of Violations; Requirement for Automatic Investigation; Investigation of Sexual Offenses
- § 20-2-984.4. Professional Standards Commission - Preliminary Investigations; Powers of Investigator; Limitations; Notice; Change of Address; Withdrawal of Application
- § 20-2-984.5. Professional Standards Commission - Preliminary Investigations; Disciplinary Actions; Hearings; Consultative Services
- § 20-2-985. Professional Standards Commission - Selection of Chairman; Calling of Meetings; Quorum; Minutes; Annual Report
- § 20-2-986. Professional Standards Commission - Reimbursement; Retention of Income and Benefit Rights by Members Employed by State Agency or Political Subdivision; Reimbursement for Employee's Performance of Duties as Commission Member
- § 20-2-987. Professional Standards Commission - Executive Secretary; Employees' Membership in State Retirement Systems; Transfer of Property and Employees to Commission; Commission Substitute for Department of Education
- § 20-2-988. Duties and Authority of Commission
- § 20-2-989. Appropriation of Operating Funds
- § 20-2-989.1. Classifications for Certificated Personnel; Functions of State Board Transferred to Commission
- Because Ga. L. 1979, p. 1065, § 5 provided that the "Georgia Professional Standards Act" (enacted by Ga. L. 1976, p. 966) was to stand repealed June 30, 1982, that Act, as amended, was not originally included in this Code. However, Ga. L. 1982, p. 836, § 1 repealed the June 30, 1982, termination date for the "Georgia Professional Standards Act"; and that Act, as amended and otherwise revised, was codified at this part by Ga. L. 1982, p. 836, § 2.
Ga. L. 1998, p. 750, § 11, not codified by the General Assembly, provides that all cases pending before the Professional Practices Commission on June 30, 1998, shall be transferred to the Professional Standards Commission.
RESEARCH REFERENCESEmotional Distress by Schoolteacher or Administrator, 18 POF3d 103.
Defense of a Teacher Charged with Unfitness to Teach, 38 POF3d 63.
Proof that a Teacher's License was Improperly Revoked: Teacher's Damages and Emotional Stress Award, 66 POF3d 541.
