O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 20-2-692.2 (2019)

Foster care student attending court proceedings related to that student’s foster care to be credited as present at school

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)

Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.

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(a) As used in this Code section, the term “foster care student” means a student who is in a foster home or otherwise in the foster care system

ELEMENTARY & SECONDARY EDUC.

under the Division of Family and Children Services of the Department of Human Services.

(b) A foster care student who attends court proceedings relating to the student’s foster care shall be credited as present by the school and shall not be counted as an absence, either excused or unexcused, for any day, portion of a day, or days missed from school.

History

Code 1981, § 20-2-692.2, enacted by Ga. L. 2011, p. 260, § 2/HB 314.

Annotations

Cross references. Foster Parent Bill of Rights, § 49-5281.

Editor’s notes. Ga. L. 2011, p. 260, § 1/HB 314, not codified by the General Assembly, provides that: “This Act shall be known and may be cited as ‘Jessie’s Law.’”