republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/sb-243.md

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Bill	Georgia Judicial Retirement System; preservation of rights by certain persons; change certain provisions	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 23 of Title 47 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the Georgia Judicial Retirement System, so as to change certain provisions relating to preservation of rights by certain persons; to provide for membership in the system for certain persons in a full-time position requiring admission to the State Bar of Georgia as a condition of employment; to provide for an irrevocable election; to provide for a transfer of funds; to provide for creditable service; to provide for calculation of benefits; to change certain provisions relating to definitions; to provide a legislative purpose; 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	SB 243	Georgia SB 243 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	David Shafer Jack Hill	4	15	1	2015-03-26	2016-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/95e5b25e-6775-4db7-ab39-2e741fa9ccb8	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	6b91e4aa8b79ce350a4641f2625c29fc973ac950ed125841dfd040ad933cc77f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 243 (2015_16) — Georgia Judicial Retirement System; preservation of rights by certain persons; change certain provisions

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 23 of Title 47 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the Georgia Judicial Retirement System, so as to change certain provisions relating to preservation of rights by certain persons; to provide for membership in the system for certain persons in a full-time position requiring admission to the State Bar of Georgia as a condition of employment; to provide for an irrevocable election; to provide for a transfer of funds; to provide for creditable service; to provide for calculation of benefits; to change certain provisions relating to definitions; to provide a legislative purpose; 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. As introduced LC 21 3828 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Auditors Certification - Actuarial Investigation (committee substitute) — source
4. SB 243/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 50–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• David Shafer — primary (person)
• Jack Hill — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-03-26 Senate Hopper
• 2015-03-27 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2016-01-27 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-01-28 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2016-02-02 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2016-02-02 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2016-02-03 House First Readers reading-1
• 2016-02-04 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2016-02-04 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-03-16 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2016-03-16 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2016-03-30 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2016-05-03 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2016-05-03 Veto V13 executive-signature
• 2016-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/95e5b25e-6775-4db7-ab39-2e741fa9ccb8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).