republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2013-14/sb-235.md

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Bill	Georgia Firefighters' Pension Fund; change the definition of the term "firefighter"; creditable service	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 7 of Title 47 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the Georgia Firefighters' Pension Fund, so as to change the definition of the term "firefighter"; to provide for creditable service for certain prior service; 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	SB 235	Georgia SB 235 (2013_14)	bill		enacted	Jeff Mullis John Albers Steve Gooch	5	15	1	2013-02-28	2014-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/bdfdb20c-1fcc-4390-9a6d-8e38d401e08b	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	b0ff25c51a013d12144d0f10f6d1e9a81ba5281a6fcbad892cdffef5eb645334	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 235 (2013_14) — Georgia Firefighters' Pension Fund; change the definition of the term "firefighter"; creditable service

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 7 of Title 47 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the Georgia Firefighters' Pension Fund, so as to change the definition of the term "firefighter"; to provide for creditable service for certain prior service; 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. As introduced LC 21 2160 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 21 2250S (committee substitute) — source
4. Fiscal Impact Note (committee substitute) — source
5. SB 235/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — 52–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Jeff Mullis — primary (person)
• John Albers — primary (person)
• Steve Gooch — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-02-28 Senate Hopper
• 2013-03-01 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2014-02-19 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2014-02-20 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2014-02-21 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2014-02-21 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2014-02-24 House First Readers reading-1
• 2014-02-25 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2014-03-05 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2014-03-12 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2014-03-12 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2014-03-26 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2014-04-22 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2014-04-22 Act 584 executive-signature
• 2014-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/bdfdb20c-1fcc-4390-9a6d-8e38d401e08b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).