republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/hb-967.md

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Bill	"Macon Water Commissioners - Pension Plan"; termination of employment before retirement; modify provisions	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act entitled "Macon Water Commissioners - Pension Plan," approved December 30, 1953 (Ga. L. 1953, p. 2831), as amended, particularly by an Act approved May 1, 2012 (Ga. L. 2012, p. 5637), so as to modify provisions related to termination of employment before retirement; to modify provisions related to direct rollovers; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	HB 967	Georgia HB 967 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Allen Peake James Epps Robert Dickey	2	13	1	2016-02-09	2016-04-27	openstates	ocd-bill/4a80f3e9-890e-4a56-9b89-0607726b95ee	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	6cc10d5f1bb7f063d4f9c2bcc66d2f6437bd95c3861977334b5b376ed3683acc	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 967 (2015_16) — "Macon Water Commissioners - Pension Plan"; termination of employment before retirement; modify provisions

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act entitled "Macon Water Commissioners - Pension Plan," approved December 30, 1953 (Ga. L. 1953, p. 2831), as amended, particularly by an Act approved May 1, 2012 (Ga. L. 2012, p. 5637), so as to modify provisions related to termination of employment before retirement; to modify provisions related to direct rollovers; 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 967/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 43 0294/a (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Local Calendar — 164–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Allen Peake — primary (person)
• James Epps — primary (person)
• Robert Dickey — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-09 House Hopper
• 2016-02-10 House First Readers reading-1
• 2016-02-11 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2016-02-17 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-02-17 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2016-02-17 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2016-02-18 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2016-02-25 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-02-25 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2016-03-28 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2016-04-27 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2016-04-27 Act 490 executive-signature
• 2016-04-27 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4a80f3e9-890e-4a56-9b89-0607726b95ee. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).