From high demand careers, child care, school safety, and occupational licensing to workforce housing, transportation, and healthcare, MAX Minutes with Public Policy Experts covered a range of important topics that the Georgia General Assembly will be focused on tackling as they gather for the 2025 legislative session. Special thanks to MAX executive officer Tim Cairl, Senior Director, Educated Workforce, Metro Atlanta Chamber and Cosby Johnson, Director, Governmental Affairs, Georgia Chamber for joining us to talk through potential legislation and initiatives that are important to the workforce development community.
Cairl and Johnson shared a number of “inside baseball” pointers for understanding the Georgia legislative process and how policies are considered. Noting 2025 is the first year of a two-year session, they noted how bills that did not pass in 2024 may be revisited and how bills introduced in 2025 may be further considered in 2026.
Special thanks to MAX executive officer Daniela Perry, Executive Director, Georgia Chamber Foundation, for hosting the session and moderating the discussion with Cairl and Johnson.
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Click here for the final report of the Senate Study Committee on Access to Affordable Child Care (SR 471) referenced during the session.
ABOUT MAX MINUTES
Launched in 2014, the mission of MAX is to advance economic competitiveness in the Atlanta region by strengthening connections, collaborations, and practices among workforce developers and organizations engaged in workforce development.
Through our webinar series, MAX Minutes, MAX seeks to bring timely insights to providers, intermediaries, and other partners in workforce. MAX Minutes features talks by key experts in the Atlanta region and beyond on important workforce matters.