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Bill Employees' Retirement System of Georgia; allow certain sworn law enforcement officers to be eligible for retirement benefits at age 55; provisions A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 2 of Title 47 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the Employees' Retirement System of Georgia, so as to allow all sworn law enforcement officers serving in and the commissioner and deputy commissioner of the Department of Public Safety to be eligible for regular retirement benefits at the age of 55 years, certain disability benefits, and certain provisions for purchasing creditable service; to provide conditions for an effective date and automatic repeal; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes. us/states/ga Georgia General Assembly 2025_26 HB 438 Georgia HB 438 (2025_26)
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LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS AND AGENCIES
RETIREMENT AND PENSIONS
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Beth Camp
Bill Hitchens
Clint Crowe
Deborah Silcox
Eddie Lumsden
Shaw Blackmon
4 14 2 2025-02-12 2026-05-11 openstates ocd-bill/ef185cba-bb28-4ac5-a1b9-e2db1cd9d608 http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl 381be569688eed6c0778750a583f521bb4b1260ebc80290920c1134601c3ec53 2026-07-01 https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump 2026-07-06 reported
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Georgia HB 438 (2025_26) — Employees' Retirement System of Georgia; allow certain sworn law enforcement officers to be eligible for retirement benefits at age 55; provisions

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 2 of Title 47 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the Employees' Retirement System of Georgia, so as to allow all sworn law enforcement officers serving in and the commissioner and deputy commissioner of the Department of Public Safety to be eligible for regular retirement benefits at the age of 55 years, certain disability benefits, and certain provisions for purchasing creditable service; 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. Actuarial Investigation (committee substitute) — source
  2. Auditor's Certification LC 56 0281 (committee substitute) — source
  3. HB 438/AP* (committee substitute) — source
  4. LC 56 0281/a (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • Senate Vote #804 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 520 (pass) · upper
  • House Vote #646 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 1590 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • Beth Camp — primary (person)
  • Bill Hitchens — primary (person)
  • Clint Crowe — primary (person)
  • Deborah Silcox — primary (person)
  • Eddie Lumsden — primary (person)
  • Shaw Blackmon — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2025-02-12 House Hopper introduction
  • 2025-02-13 House First Readers reading-1
  • 2025-02-18 House Second Readers reading-2
  • 2026-02-25 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
  • 2026-03-04 House Third Readers reading-3
  • 2026-03-04 House Passed/Adopted passage
  • 2026-03-06 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
  • 2026-03-18 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
  • 2026-03-19 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
  • 2026-03-25 Senate Third Read reading-3
  • 2026-03-25 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
  • 2026-04-06 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
  • 2026-05-11 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
  • 2026-05-11 Act 439 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ef185cba-bb28-4ac5-a1b9-e2db1cd9d608. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).