republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/hb-844.md

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Bill	Georgia Firefighters' Pension Fund; insurance premiums subject to taxation; update certain provisions	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 update certain provisions related to determining which insurance premiums are subject to taxation related to the fund; to provide that venue for any action brought in the superior court against the fund or the board shall be in the superior court of the board's county of domicile; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	HB 844	Georgia HB 844 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Debbie Buckner Gerald Greene Howard Maxwell Micah Gravley Paulette Rakestraw Rick Jasperse	4	15	1	2016-01-26	2016-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/3c9478db-53f2-4ce8-b717-72d0617d374d	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	39aa899b565fbb97d16101d87044958c2c16669b9847603188c5880939cab4cc	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 844 (2015_16) — Georgia Firefighters' Pension Fund; insurance premiums subject to taxation; update certain provisions

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 update certain provisions related to determining which insurance premiums are subject to taxation related to the fund; to provide that venue for any action brought in the superior court against the fund or the board shall be in the superior court of the board's county of domicile; 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 844/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 43 0224/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 43 0271S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 43 0271S/hs (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 163–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Debbie Buckner — primary (person)
• Gerald Greene — primary (person)
• Howard Maxwell — primary (person)
• Micah Gravley — primary (person)
• Paulette Rakestraw — primary (person)
• Rick Jasperse — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-01-26 House Hopper
• 2016-01-27 House First Readers reading-1
• 2016-01-28 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
• 2016-02-24 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-02-25 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2016-03-10 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2016-03-10 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 457 executive-signature
• 2016-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3c9478db-53f2-4ce8-b717-72d0617d374d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).