republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2013-14/hb-71.md

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Bill	Georgia Municipal Employees Benefit System; total percentage of investments permissible in real estate investments; increase	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 47-20-83 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to certificated or uncertificated forms of investment and real estate investments, so as to increase the total percentage of investments permissible in real estate investments for the Georgia Municipal Employees Benefit System and any association of like political subdivisions which contracts with its members; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2013_14	HB 71	Georgia HB 71 (2013_14)	bill		enacted	Gerald Greene Howard Maxwell Jan Tankersley Lynne Riley Susan Holmes Tom Taylor	2	15	1	2013-01-16	2013-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/10918342-f06f-49a8-a4d1-7e5bd2ef0d3f	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	9b9d945bc75b382d54ce8c6b15bbde7d99172f2750284094f46af66c2ff14784	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 71 (2013_14) — Georgia Municipal Employees Benefit System; total percentage of investments permissible in real estate investments; increase

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 47-20-83 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to certificated or uncertificated forms of investment and real estate investments, so as to increase the total percentage of investments permissible in real estate investments for the Georgia Municipal Employees Benefit System and any association of like political subdivisions which contracts with its members; 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 71/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 21 1886/a (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 150–13 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Gerald Greene — primary (person)
• Howard Maxwell — primary (person)
• Jan Tankersley — primary (person)
• Lynne Riley — primary (person)
• Susan Holmes — primary (person)
• Tom Taylor — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-01-16 House Hopper
• 2013-01-17 House First Readers reading-1
• 2013-01-28 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2013-02-07 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-03-01 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2013-03-01 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2013-03-04 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 187 executive-signature
• 2013-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/10918342-f06f-49a8-a4d1-7e5bd2ef0d3f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).