republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/hb-635.md

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Bill	Judges of Probate Courts Retirement Fund; increase number of years of mandatory contribution; provisions	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 11 of Title 47 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the Judges of the Probate Courts Retirement Fund, so as to increase the number of years of mandatory contribution to such fund; to increase the maximum number of years used to calculate benefits; to provide for certain creditable service; to provide for application and payment of funds; 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 635	Georgia HB 635 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	James Epps	4	15	1	2015-03-19	2016-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/b9c24aaf-61a0-4191-b5f8-0c998e1b366a	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	fda3d2d891ee3ebee50ef9d4624d3f8a2a33cc3b7c7df837c3309d9d3d53101f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 635 (2015_16) — Judges of Probate Courts Retirement Fund; increase number of years of mandatory contribution; provisions

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 11 of Title 47 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the Judges of the Probate Courts Retirement Fund, so as to increase the number of years of mandatory contribution to such fund; to increase the maximum number of years used to calculate benefits; to provide for certain creditable service; to provide for application and payment of funds; 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 635/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 21 3694/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 43 0171S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 43 0171S/hs (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 128–28 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• James Epps — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-03-19 House Hopper
• 2015-03-19 House First Readers reading-1
• 2015-03-20 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2016-02-04 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-02-10 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2016-02-10 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2016-02-11 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
• 2016-03-14 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 427 executive-signature
• 2016-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b9c24aaf-61a0-4191-b5f8-0c998e1b366a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).