---
type: "Bill"
title: "Regents Retirement Plan; level of employee participation; change"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 47-21-4 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to employee and other contributions in the Regents Retirement Plan, so as to change the level of employee participation; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2013_14"
identifier: "HB 232"
citation: "Georgia HB 232 (2013_14)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Howard Maxwell", "Paul Battles"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2013-02-06"
last_action: "2013-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5fac7d22-9913-4fb6-9ead-af3e2c533d07"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "488792443cdf071a837d3d42b593d66f660060ac01d8b70032fbfc8bdc104525"
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 232 (2013_14) — Regents Retirement Plan; level of employee participation; change

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 47-21-4 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to employee and other contributions in the Regents Retirement Plan, so as to change the level of employee participation; 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 232/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/136509.pdf)
2. **LC 21 1976/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/129987.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **157–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Howard Maxwell — primary (person)
- Paul Battles — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2013-02-06** House Hopper
- **2013-02-07** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2013-02-08** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2013-02-14** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2013-02-21** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2013-02-21** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2013-02-22** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2013-03-14** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2013-03-20** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2013-03-26** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2013-03-26** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2013-04-03** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2013-05-06** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2013-05-06** Act 258 `executive-signature`
- **2013-07-01** Effective Date

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5fac7d22-9913-4fb6-9ead-af3e2c533d07`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).