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SR 340

MEMORIAL-NANCY M. HAHN

104th Regular Session Introduced by Steve McClure

SR 340 honors Georgia State University for 2024 achievements and directs the Secretary of the Senate to deliver a copy of the resolution to the university.

Resolution Adopted
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Bill Summary · SR 340

Summary — SR 340 (Resolution Adopted)

Bill at a glance

  • Bill number: SR 340
  • Title: MEMORIAL‑NANCY M. HAHN (file contains additional GA State University recognition language)
  • Classification: Senate resolution (honorific/commemorative)
  • Introduced: March 25, 2025
  • Status: Read & adopted (March 27, 2025); reported enrolled; resolution adopted (May 22, 2025)
  • Primary sponsor(s): Mike Hodges and a broad group of Georgia Senators (co‑sponsors include Marty Harbin, Chuck Payne, Sally Harrell, Nabilah Islam Parkes, Sonya Halpern, Shawn Still, Billy Hickman, et al.; later noted as co‑sponsored by all Senators)

Purpose / Intent

SR 340 is an honorary resolution that (1) recognizes and commends Georgia State University for its accomplishments and contributions in 2024 and (2) authorizes the Secretary of the Senate to provide a copy of the resolution to the university. The legislative file also contains a separate memorial resolution text from the Illinois Senate mourning the death of Nancy M. Hahn; that memorial appears to be an unrelated document included in the same file.

Key provisions (Georgia State University recognition)

  • Formally recognizes Georgia State University’s history (founded 1913) and role as an urban research university serving more than 52,000 students with campuses in downtown Atlanta and satellite locations in DeKalb, Fulton, and Newton counties.
  • Highlights institutional achievements and metrics:
    • Ranked the nation’s No. 1 public university for excellence in undergraduate teaching by U.S. News & World Report for five consecutive years.
    • Consistently ranked among the top five “Most Innovative” universities for about a decade.
    • Increased its six‑year graduation rate by 74% since 2003.
    • Research investments exceeding $1.2 billion in expenditures over the past six years.
    • Nearly $186 million in research funding in Fiscal Year 2024.
    • Economic impact: approximately $3.2 billion annually on metro Atlanta.
  • Notes major gifts and projects:
    • $80 million gift from the Robert W. Woodruff Foundation for campus transformation.
    • Groundbreaking on a new nine‑story, $100 million Research Tower.
  • Recognizes the National Institute for Student Success (NISS):
    • $2 million grant from Ascendium Education Group to scale services to six Georgia institutions.
    • U.S. Dept. of Education Trailblazer Award for NISS’s student‑success work.
  • Student‑athlete academic achievements:
    • Over 200 student‑athletes earned Sun Belt academic honors for 2023–24; 130 earned a place on the Commissioner’s List (GPA ≥ 3.5); team GPA of 3.39.
  • Notes strategic planning:
    • Adoption of a 10‑year strategic plan (BluePrint to 2033) focused on Student Success 2.0; Identity, Placemaking and Belonging; Innovating Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity; and Beyond College to Career; nearly two dozen initiatives launched under the plan.
  • Directs the Secretary of the Senate to make an appropriate copy of the resolution available to Georgia State University.

Separate memorial content (file note)

  • The legislative text also includes a separate Illinois Senate memorial for Nancy M. Hahn (born Jan 25, 1932; died May 5, 2025) expressing sympathy and listing biographical details and community involvement. This appears to be an unrelated memorial resolution included in the same document file.

Who is affected / impact

  • Direct effect: purely honorary — recognizes and commends institutional achievements and not intended to create new law, appropriations, or regulatory obligations.
  • Symbolic beneficiaries: Georgia State University, its students, faculty, staff, alumni, and the metro Atlanta community (recognition may enhance public profile).
  • No fiscal or statutory changes are enacted by this resolution.

Procedural / timeline notes

  • Introduced March 25, 2025; read and adopted in the Senate March 27, 2025; reported enrolled and later filed with the Secretary. The resolution was recorded in the Journal and ultimately adopted and placed on the Resolutions Consent Calendar (co‑sponsored broadly, later noted as by all Senators).

Compiled from official sources — confirm details with the bill’s official record.

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