Georgia legislation · 2025-2026 Regular Session
Georgia HB1424: Sumter County; board of education; revise compensation
Status: Signed into law, May 11, 2026
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act to revise and restate the law relating to the Sumter County board of education and school superintendent, approved February 26, 2014 (Ga. L. 2014, p. 3503), as amended, so as to revise the compensation of such board; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
What the bill says
To amend an Act to revise and restate the law relating to the Sumter County board of education and school superintendent, approved February 26, 2014 (Ga. L. 2014, p. 3503), as amended, so as to revise the compensation of the board at the request of the board to provide that members of the board shall be compensated in the amount of $500.00 per month and entitled to reimbursement of actual expenses of up to 3,000.00 per year; and for other purposes. AFFIDAVIT GEORGIA, FULTON COUNTY I, Mike Cheokas, Representative from District 151, state on oath as follows: (1) I am the author of the loc.
From the introduced text:
a bill to amend an Act to revise and restate the law relating to the Sumter County board of education and school superintendent, approved February 26, 2014 (Ga. L. 2014, p. 3503), as amended, so as to revise the compensation of the board at the request of the board to provide that members of the board shall be compensated in the amount of $500.00 per month and entitled to reimbursement of actual expenses of up to 3,000.00 per year; and for other purposes. AFFIDAVIT GEORGIA, FULTON COUNTY I, Mike Cheokas, Representative from District 151, state on oath as follows: (1) I am the author of the local bill to which this affidavit is attached. (2) In accordance with O.C.G.A. § 28-1-14, the notice requirements for the local bill to which this affidavit is attached have been satisfied, including but not limited to the following: (A) The Notice of Intention to Introduce Local Legislation which is attached to such local bill was published in the Americus Times Recorder, which is the official organ of Sumter County, on the 18th of February, 2026; and (B) If the local bill amends the charter of a municipality or the enabling Act of the governing authority of a county or consolidated government, then a copy of the Notice of Intention to Introduce Local Legislation was …