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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Georgia Judicial Retirement System; member who was serving in a full-time position on his or her retirement may use prior part-time service for vesting; provide"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 47-23-63 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to definition and effect of full-time and part-time service and calculations, so as to provide that a member of the Georgia Judicial Retirement System who was serving in a full-time position on his or her retirement may use prior part-time service for vesting; to provide conditions for an effective date and automatic repeal; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
+legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
+session: "2015_16"
+identifier: "HB 605"
+citation: "Georgia HB 605 (2015_16)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Andrew Welch", "Tom Weldon"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 17
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2015-03-11"
+last_action: "2016-07-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7cf67e7f-76fe-4cc7-a653-387f5345ea15"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "4ba238075efec0ae3f890a1f7e93516f3d119263c95d9523ffb9e3781e253d94"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ga"]
+---
+
+# Georgia HB 605 (2015_16) — Georgia Judicial Retirement System; member who was serving in a full-time position on his or her retirement may use prior part-time service for vesting; provide
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 47-23-63 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to definition and effect of full-time and part-time service and calculations, so as to provide that a member of the Georgia Judicial Retirement System who was serving in a full-time position on his or her retirement may use prior part-time service for vesting; to provide conditions for an effective date and automatic repeal; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB 605/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/162447.pdf)
+2. **LC 43 0077/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/151005.pdf)
+3. **LC 43 0175S/hcs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/159316.pdf)
+4. **LC 43 0175S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/154590.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **134–29** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Andrew Welch — primary (person)
+- Tom Weldon — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2015-03-11** House Hopper
+- **2015-03-13** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2015-03-18** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2016-01-14** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2016-02-29** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2016-02-29** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2016-03-02** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2016-03-10** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2016-03-11** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2016-03-22** Senate Tabled
+- **2016-03-24** Senate Taken from Table
+- **2016-03-24** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2016-03-24** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2016-03-30** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2016-04-26** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2016-04-26** Act 426 `executive-signature`
+- **2016-07-01** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7cf67e7f-76fe-4cc7-a653-387f5345ea15`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+