republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/hb-605.md

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Bill	Georgia Judicial Retirement System; member who was serving in a full-time position on his or her retirement may use prior part-time service for vesting; provide	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 47-23-63 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to definition and effect of full-time and part-time service and calculations, so as to provide that a member of the Georgia Judicial Retirement System who was serving in a full-time position on his or her retirement may use prior part-time service for vesting; 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 605	Georgia HB 605 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Andrew Welch Tom Weldon	4	17	1	2015-03-11	2016-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/7cf67e7f-76fe-4cc7-a653-387f5345ea15	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	4ba238075efec0ae3f890a1f7e93516f3d119263c95d9523ffb9e3781e253d94	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 605 (2015_16) — Georgia Judicial Retirement System; member who was serving in a full-time position on his or her retirement may use prior part-time service for vesting; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 47-23-63 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to definition and effect of full-time and part-time service and calculations, so as to provide that a member of the Georgia Judicial Retirement System who was serving in a full-time position on his or her retirement may use prior part-time service for vesting; 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 605/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 43 0077/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 43 0175S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 43 0175S/hs (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 134–29 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Andrew Welch — primary (person)
• Tom Weldon — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-03-11 House Hopper
• 2015-03-13 House First Readers reading-1
• 2015-03-18 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2016-01-14 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-02-29 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2016-02-29 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2016-03-02 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2016-03-10 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-03-11 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2016-03-22 Senate Tabled
• 2016-03-24 Senate Taken from Table
• 2016-03-24 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2016-03-24 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2016-03-30 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2016-04-26 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2016-04-26 Act 426 executive-signature
• 2016-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7cf67e7f-76fe-4cc7-a653-387f5345ea15. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).