republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2025-26/hb-37.md

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Bill	Education; require local school systems to notify employees regarding social security withholdings and eligibility for certain benefits	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Subpart 2 of Part 6 of Article 6 of Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to conditions of employment in elementary and secondary education, so as to require local school systems to provide notice to employees regarding social security withholdings and eligibility for inclusion in certain benefits, pension, or retirement plans; to provide for an effective date; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2025_26	HB 37	Georgia HB 37 (2025_26)	bill	EDUCATION RETIREMENT AND PENSIONS REVENUE AND TAXATION	enacted	Bethany Ballard Rob Leverett Scott Hilton	3	16	3	2025-01-14	2025-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/24e73f2b-d5a6-473b-8035-14bfed80ad9d	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	218b85c031c0b234fa69da9478c7da2e212183f606fb4d46a4dfa84150970a45	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 37 (2025_26) — Education; require local school systems to notify employees regarding social security withholdings and eligibility for certain benefits

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Subpart 2 of Part 6 of Article 6 of Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to conditions of employment in elementary and secondary education, so as to require local school systems to provide notice to employees regarding social security withholdings and eligibility for inclusion in certain benefits, pension, or retirement plans; to provide for an effective date; to provide for related matters; 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 37/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 49 1994/a (committee substitute) — source
3. Sen Ctee sub LC 61 0251S (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate Vote #385 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 52–1 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #408 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 163–0 (pass) · lower
• House Vote #162 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 169–2 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bethany Ballard — primary (person)
• Rob Leverett — primary (person)
• Scott Hilton — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-14 House Hopper introduction
• 2025-01-15 House First Readers reading-1
• 2025-01-16 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2025-02-28 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-04 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2025-03-04 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2025-03-06 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2025-03-27 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-27 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2025-04-02 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2025-04-02 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2025-04-04 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
• 2025-04-09 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-05-13 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2025-05-13 Act 170 executive-signature
• 2025-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/24e73f2b-d5a6-473b-8035-14bfed80ad9d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).