republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/sb-336.md

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Bill	Retirement; permit governing bodies of municipal corporations to enact plans by resolution in addition to ordinance	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 3 of Chapter 5 of Title 47 of the O.C.G.A., related to retirement plans of the Georgia Municipal Employees Benefit System, so as to permit governing bodies of municipal corporations to enact plans or join a master plan by resolution in addition to ordinance; to designate a board of trustees for a master plan; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	SB 336	Georgia SB 336 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Chuck Hufstetler David Lucas Ellis Black Emanuel Jones	4	15	1	2016-02-04	2016-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/98307f71-3209-4391-b725-0e400f576954	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	133559a1a43d27c59e5e271f227c20225d66ebe9da5d690918323ea8faf187e9	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 336 (2015_16) — Retirement; permit governing bodies of municipal corporations to enact plans by resolution in addition to ordinance

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 3 of Chapter 5 of Title 47 of the O.C.G.A., related to retirement plans of the Georgia Municipal Employees Benefit System, so as to permit governing bodies of municipal corporations to enact plans or join a master plan by resolution in addition to ordinance; to designate a board of trustees for a master plan; 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 43 0254 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Fiscal Impact Note (committee substitute) — source
4. SB 336/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 53–1 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Chuck Hufstetler — primary (person)
• David Lucas — primary (person)
• Ellis Black — primary (person)
• Emanuel Jones — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-04 Senate Hopper
• 2016-02-08 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2016-02-17 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-02-18 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2016-02-29 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2016-02-29 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2016-03-02 House First Readers reading-1
• 2016-03-07 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2016-03-10 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-03-15 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2016-03-15 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2016-03-30 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2016-04-26 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2016-04-26 Act 381 executive-signature
• 2016-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/98307f71-3209-4391-b725-0e400f576954. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).