---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public School Employees Retirement System; limitation on maximum level of benefits; clarify certain provisions"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 47-4-101 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to retirement benefits payable under the Public School Employees Retirement System, so as to clarify certain provisions relating to a limitation on the maximum level of retirement benefits; to provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2013_14"
identifier: "HB 238"
citation: "Georgia HB 238 (2013_14)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brooks Coleman", "Howard Maxwell", "John Carson", "Lynne Riley", "Paul Battles", "Tommy Benton"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2013-02-06"
last_action: "2013-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2bc98a22-7930-4bcc-aad2-14547378e8ca"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "6ef7f52e98c678989a780fd40e0f7db1b5facd2b2b02eaf053ae2d09bc78e819"
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 238 (2013_14) — Public School Employees Retirement System; limitation on maximum level of benefits; clarify certain provisions

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 47-4-101 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to retirement benefits payable under the Public School Employees Retirement System, so as to clarify certain provisions relating to a limitation on the maximum level of retirement benefits; to provide an effective date; 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 238/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/137085.pdf)
2. **LC 21 2048/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/129986.pdf)
3. **LC 21 2176S/hcs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/133634.pdf)
4. **LC 21 2176S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/133337.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **163–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Brooks Coleman — primary (person)
- Howard Maxwell — primary (person)
- John Carson — primary (person)
- Lynne Riley — primary (person)
- Paul Battles — primary (person)
- Tommy Benton — 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`
- **2013-03-04** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2013-03-05** House Postponed
- **2013-03-07** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2013-03-07** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2013-03-11** 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 Tabled
- **2013-03-28** Senate Taken from Table
- **2013-03-28** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2013-04-04** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2013-05-06** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2013-05-06** Act 238 `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/2bc98a22-7930-4bcc-aad2-14547378e8ca`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).