republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/hb-217.md

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Bill	Investments; public retirement systems to invest in mutual funds, commingled funds, collective investment funds, common trusts, and group trusts; authorize	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 investments and real estate investments, so as to authorize public retirement systems to invest in mutual funds, commingled funds, collective investment funds, common trusts, and group trusts; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	HB 217	Georgia HB 217 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Brooks Coleman David Clark Debbie Buckner Gerald Greene Howard Maxwell Patty Bentley	4	17	1	2015-02-03	2015-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/56c18a81-8137-4f70-b0f4-c401ce2f965a	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	713bd6c602e584cd5a868fdc38b23aa141e2b74b9912235673a35f21ce0c056e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 217 (2015_16) — Investments; public retirement systems to invest in mutual funds, commingled funds, collective investment funds, common trusts, and group trusts; authorize

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 investments and real estate investments, so as to authorize public retirement systems to invest in mutual funds, commingled funds, collective investment funds, common trusts, and group trusts; 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.

1. HB 217/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 43 0069/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 43 0099S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 43 0099S/hs (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 167–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Brooks Coleman — primary (person)
• David Clark — primary (person)
• Debbie Buckner — primary (person)
• Gerald Greene — primary (person)
• Howard Maxwell — primary (person)
• Patty Bentley — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-03 House Hopper
• 2015-02-04 House First Readers reading-1
• 2015-02-09 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2015-02-19 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-02-24 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2015-02-24 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2015-02-25 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2015-03-24 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-03-25 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2015-03-31 Senate Tabled
• 2015-04-02 Senate Taken from Table
• 2015-04-02 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2015-04-02 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2015-04-07 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2015-05-06 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2015-05-06 Act 126 executive-signature
• 2015-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/56c18a81-8137-4f70-b0f4-c401ce2f965a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).