---
type: "Bill"
title: "Deferred Compensation Plans; governing authority of a municipality may pay costs/fees associated with employee's participation; provide"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 18 of Title 45 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to deferred compensation plans, so as to provide that the governing authority of a municipality may pay costs or fees associated with an employee's participation in a deferred compensation plan; to provide that certain public employees may be automatically enrolled in deferred compensation plans; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2017_18"
identifier: "SB 333"
citation: "Georgia SB 333 (2017_18)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ben Watson", "Dean Burke", "Ellis Black", "Michael 'Doc' Rhett", "Tonya Anderson"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 16
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2018-01-18"
last_action: "2018-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c5a89639-df8b-42a3-b7d3-1cd9a0a65531"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "d4d407bc6731efd3232e8dd333bf21d97bedd86a572c995d61a2dd67a17f47e5"
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 SB 333 (2017_18) — Deferred Compensation Plans; governing authority of a municipality may pay costs/fees associated with employee's participation; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 18 of Title 45 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to deferred compensation plans, so as to provide that the governing authority of a municipality may pay costs or fees associated with an employee's participation in a deferred compensation plan; to provide that certain public employees may be automatically enrolled in deferred compensation plans; to provide for related matters; to provide for 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.


## Votes

- PASSAGE — **53–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ben Watson — primary (person)
- Dean Burke — primary (person)
- Ellis Black — primary (person)
- Michael 'Doc' Rhett — primary (person)
- Tonya Anderson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-18** Senate Hopper
- **2018-01-19** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-31** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-01** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2018-02-06** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2018-02-06** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2018-02-07** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2018-02-08** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2018-02-14** House Withdrawn, Recommitted `withdrawal, referral-committee`
- **2018-03-07** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-14** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2018-03-14** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2018-04-05** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2018-05-08** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-08** Act 447 `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-08** Effective Date

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c5a89639-df8b-42a3-b7d3-1cd9a0a65531`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).