republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2013-14/hb-601.md

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Bill	Judges of the Probate Courts Retirement Fund of Georgia; define certain terms; provisions	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 11 of Title 47 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the Judges of the Probate Courts Retirement Fund of Georgia, so as to define certain terms; to restrict and repeal an automatic cost-of-living benefit increase; to provide for a portion of fines and forfeited bonds for criminal, quasi-criminal, and civil cases for violating state statutes or traffic laws be paid to the fund; to provide for a member contribution; 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 601	Georgia HB 601 (2013_14)	bill		enacted	Debbie Buckner Howard Maxwell Paul Battles Tom Weldon Tyrone Brooks	4	17	1	2013-03-12	2014-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/436ebb5b-3236-49b9-b072-f6d29d6c2c91	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	74a747b33b378c0bc0048751230adc27c644eb2e77dcc5f460eee7537e63ab9b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 601 (2013_14) — Judges of the Probate Courts Retirement Fund of Georgia; define certain terms; provisions

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 11 of Title 47 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the Judges of the Probate Courts Retirement Fund of Georgia, so as to define certain terms; to restrict and repeal an automatic cost-of-living benefit increase; to provide for a portion of fines and forfeited bonds for criminal, quasi-criminal, and civil cases for violating state statutes or traffic laws be paid to the fund; to provide for a member contribution; 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 601/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 21 2151/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 21 2249S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 21 2249S/hs (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 164–2 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Debbie Buckner — primary (person)
• Howard Maxwell — primary (person)
• Paul Battles — primary (person)
• Tom Weldon — primary (person)
• Tyrone Brooks — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-03-12 House Hopper
• 2013-03-13 House First Readers reading-1
• 2013-03-14 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2014-02-19 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2014-02-26 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2014-02-26 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2014-03-03 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2014-03-12 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2014-03-12 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2014-03-18 Senate Tabled
• 2014-03-20 Senate Taken from Table
• 2014-03-20 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2014-03-20 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 503 executive-signature
• 2014-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/436ebb5b-3236-49b9-b072-f6d29d6c2c91. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).