republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2013-14/hb-477.md

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Bill	Employees' Retirement System of Georgia; Georgia Judicial Retirement System; transfer service credit	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 5 of Chapter 2 of Title 47 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to service creditable toward retirement benefits under the Employees' Retirement System of Georgia, so as to provide for the transfer of service credit from the Georgia Judicial Retirement System to the Employees' Retirement System of Georgia; to provide for the transfer of funds; to provide for the payment for creditable service in the Employees' Retirement System of Georgia for prior service as a member of the Georgia Judicial Retirement System; to provide for conditions and payment; to provide conditions for an effective date and automatic repeal; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2013_14	HB 477	Georgia HB 477 (2013_14)	bill		enacted	Edward Lindsey Howard Maxwell Jay Powell Rich Golick	2	17	1	2013-02-25	2014-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/5b2bf47d-02f1-4c30-a36a-d0af38d9c4d5	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	31335d1fda315a255f99389fe0d41345dc4b86f6472b73f5f3d31aee613f773c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 477 (2013_14) — Employees' Retirement System of Georgia; Georgia Judicial Retirement System; transfer service credit

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 5 of Chapter 2 of Title 47 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to service creditable toward retirement benefits under the Employees' Retirement System of Georgia, so as to provide for the transfer of service credit from the Georgia Judicial Retirement System to the Employees' Retirement System of Georgia; to provide for the transfer of funds; to provide for the payment for creditable service in the Employees' Retirement System of Georgia for prior service as a member of the Georgia Judicial Retirement System; to provide for conditions and payment; 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 477/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 21 2121/a (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 153–2 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Edward Lindsey — primary (person)
• Howard Maxwell — primary (person)
• Jay Powell — primary (person)
• Rich Golick — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-02-25 House Hopper
• 2013-02-26 House First Readers reading-1
• 2013-02-27 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2014-02-05 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2014-02-11 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2014-02-11 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2014-02-17 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2014-03-06 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2014-03-07 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2014-03-18 Senate Tabled
• 2014-03-18 Senate Taken from Table
• 2014-03-18 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2014-03-18 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2014-03-26 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2014-04-15 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2014-04-15 Act 497 executive-signature
• 2014-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5b2bf47d-02f1-4c30-a36a-d0af38d9c4d5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).