republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2025-26/sb-261.md

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Bill	Magistrates Retirement Fund; early retirement benefit; provide	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 25 of Title 47 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the magistrates retirement fund, so as to provide for an early retirement benefit; to provide for an employee contribution increase; to replace the statutory maximum monthly compensation used to calculate a benefit with an amount determined by the board; to increase the maximum number of years of service used to calculate a benefit; 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 261	Georgia SB 261 (2025_26)	bill	RETIREMENT AND PENSIONS	enacted	Billy Hickman Brian Strickland Lee Anderson Marty Harbin Rick Williams Steve Gooch	9	16	3	2025-02-26	2026-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/01a04cf9-2e54-497f-816a-73915f11cc56	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	1b55207b150b6915c1d61a4952bd2e73c5a6d564f94ecb450021c087fdaf9d4c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 261 (2025_26) — Magistrates Retirement Fund; early retirement benefit; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 25 of Title 47 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the magistrates retirement fund, so as to provide for an early retirement benefit; to provide for an employee contribution increase; to replace the statutory maximum monthly compensation used to calculate a benefit with an amount determined by the board; to increase the maximum number of years of service used to calculate a benefit; 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 0263 (committee substitute) — source
4. Auditor's Certification (committee substitute) — source
5. Auditor's Certification LC 56 0697S (committee substitute) — source
6. Auditors Certification (committee substitute) — source
7. Committee Sub LC 56 0520S (committee substitute) — source
8. LC 56 0697S/hss (committee substitute) — source
9. SB 261/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• House Vote #824 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 167–0 (pass) · lower
• Senate Vote #634 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 53–1 (pass) · upper
• Senate Vote #956 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 53–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Billy Hickman — primary (person)
• Brian Strickland — primary (person)
• Lee Anderson — primary (person)
• Marty Harbin — primary (person)
• Rick Williams — primary (person)
• Steve Gooch — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-26 Senate Hopper introduction
• 2025-02-27 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2026-02-04 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-02-05 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2026-03-04 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2026-03-04 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2026-03-06 House First Readers reading-1
• 2026-03-09 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
• 2026-05-11 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2026-05-11 Act 490 executive-signature
• 2026-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/01a04cf9-2e54-497f-816a-73915f11cc56. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).