republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2019-20/sb-26.md

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Bill	Employees' Retirement System of Georgia; prior service as a member of Georgia Defined Contribution Plan; creditable service; provide	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 5 of Chapter 2 of Title 47 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to service creditable toward retirement benefits under the Employees' Retirement System of Georgia, so as to provide for creditable service in the Employees' Retirement System of Georgia for prior service as a member of the Georgia Defined Contribution Plan; to provide for application and payment of the full actuarial cost; to provide for related matters; to provide conditions for an effective date and automatic repeal; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2019_20	SB 26	Georgia SB 26 (2019_20)	bill		enacted	Ellis Black William Ligon, Jr.	6	15	1	2019-01-17	2020-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/d1e459c5-7a25-4433-9cb3-30189954b810	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	80526db2e2a56df3f7e0d95fdd4607f9afb77540ac526fa740a964faf4e816d2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 26 (2019_20) — Employees' Retirement System of Georgia; prior service as a member of Georgia Defined Contribution Plan; creditable service; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 5 of Chapter 2 of Title 47 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to service creditable toward retirement benefits under the Employees' Retirement System of Georgia, so as to provide for creditable service in the Employees' Retirement System of Georgia for prior service as a member of the Georgia Defined Contribution Plan; to provide for application and payment of the full actuarial cost; to provide for related matters; 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 43 1098 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. SB 26/AP* (committee substitute) — source
4. SB26 Actuarial Investigation (committee substitute) — source
5. SB26 Consulting Letter (committee substitute) — source
6. SB26 State Auditor's Certification (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 51–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ellis Black — primary (person)
• William Ligon, Jr. — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-01-17 Senate Hopper
• 2019-01-28 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2020-01-30 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-01-31 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2020-02-05 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2020-02-05 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2020-02-18 House First Readers reading-1
• 2020-02-19 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2020-02-26 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-06-22 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2020-06-22 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2020-06-25 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2020-06-29 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2020-06-29 Act 386 executive-signature
• 2020-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d1e459c5-7a25-4433-9cb3-30189954b810. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).