republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/hb-421.md

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Bill	Retirement and pensions; officers employed by Department of Community Supervision shall be entitled to certain disability benefits; provide	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 47-2-221 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to disability allowances payable to personnel for certain disabilities arising in the line of duty, so as to provide that community supervision officers employed by the Department of Community Supervision shall be entitled to certain disability benefits; to provide conditions for an effective date and automatic repeal; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	HB 421	Georgia HB 421 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Chad Nimmer Christian Coomer Robert Dickey Terry Rogers	4	16	1	2015-02-19	2016-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/779d531b-4dcb-4b9c-be4e-97acacefdb20	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	3ca8ea9d697c7f276d4100114b1e01cefacd11cc82c1a8515b3c242d862857b3	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 421 (2015_16) — Retirement and pensions; officers employed by Department of Community Supervision shall be entitled to certain disability benefits; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 47-2-221 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to disability allowances payable to personnel for certain disabilities arising in the line of duty, so as to provide that community supervision officers employed by the Department of Community Supervision shall be entitled to certain disability benefits; 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 421/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 21 3669-EC/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 43 0253-ECS/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 43 0253-ECS/hs (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 165–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Chad Nimmer — primary (person)
• Christian Coomer — primary (person)
• Robert Dickey — primary (person)
• Terry Rogers — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-19 House Hopper
• 2015-02-20 House First Readers reading-1
• 2015-02-23 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2015-03-05 House Withdrawn, Recommitted referral-committee, withdrawal
• 2016-01-28 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-02-03 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2016-02-03 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2016-02-04 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2016-02-25 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-02-26 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2016-03-14 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2016-03-14 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2016-03-28 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2016-04-26 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2016-04-26 Act 400 executive-signature
• 2016-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/779d531b-4dcb-4b9c-be4e-97acacefdb20. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).