republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2025-26/sb-143.md

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Bill	Georgia Firefighter's Pension Fund; certain members to retire at age 50; provide	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 6 of Chapter 7 of Title 47 of the O.C.G.A., relating to retirement, retirement allowances, disability benefits, and death benefits relative to the Georgia Firefighter's Pension Fund, so as to provide for certain members to retire at age 50; to amend Article 7 of Chapter 20 of Title 47 of the O.C.G.A., the "Public Retirement Systems Investment Authority Law," so as to provide for an exception for the Georgia Firefighters' Pension Fund to invest in assets rated below investment grade; 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	2025_26	SB 143	Georgia SB 143 (2025_26)	bill	RETIREMENT AND PENSIONS	enacted	Chuck Payne John Albers Kay Kirkpatrick Randy Robertson Rick Williams Shawn Still	9	16	3	2025-02-11	2026-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/ab04c5e5-14a7-4348-b396-04e04f1ee416	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	29d9fc23c344ccc02c4795dae4aed3fea907cca3d149be01b1800092429df14f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 143 (2025_26) — Georgia Firefighter's Pension Fund; certain members to retire at age 50; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 6 of Chapter 7 of Title 47 of the O.C.G.A., relating to retirement, retirement allowances, disability benefits, and death benefits relative to the Georgia Firefighter's Pension Fund, so as to provide for certain members to retire at age 50; to amend Article 7 of Chapter 20 of Title 47 of the O.C.G.A., the "Public Retirement Systems Investment Authority Law," so as to provide for an exception for the Georgia Firefighters' Pension Fund to invest in assets rated below investment grade; 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. Actuarial Investigation (committee substitute) — source
2. As Passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. As introduced LC 56 0297 (committee substitute) — source
4. Auditor's Certification (committee substitute) — source
5. Auditor's Certification LC 56 0711S (committee substitute) — source
6. Committee Sub LC 56 0555S (committee substitute) — source
7. LC 56 0297 Auditor's Certification (committee substitute) — source
8. LC 56 0711S/hss (committee substitute) — source
9. SB 143/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• House Vote #809 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 168–0 (pass) · lower
• Senate Vote #550 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 47–3 (pass) · upper
• Senate Vote #941 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 52–1 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Chuck Payne — primary (person)
• John Albers — primary (person)
• Kay Kirkpatrick — primary (person)
• Randy Robertson — primary (person)
• Rick Williams — primary (person)
• Shawn Still — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-11 Senate Hopper introduction
• 2025-02-12 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2026-02-05 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-02-06 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2026-02-17 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2026-02-17 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2026-02-18 House First Readers reading-1
• 2026-02-19 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2026-03-31 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-03-31 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2026-03-31 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2026-04-02 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2026-04-10 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2026-05-12 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2026-05-12 Act 630 executive-signature
• 2026-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ab04c5e5-14a7-4348-b396-04e04f1ee416. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).