republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2013-14/hb-238.md

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Bill	Public School Employees Retirement System; limitation on maximum level of benefits; clarify certain provisions	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 47-4-101 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to retirement benefits payable under the Public School Employees Retirement System, so as to clarify certain provisions relating to a limitation on the maximum level of retirement benefits; to provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2013_14	HB 238	Georgia HB 238 (2013_14)	bill		enacted	Brooks Coleman Howard Maxwell John Carson Lynne Riley Paul Battles Tommy Benton	4	18	1	2013-02-06	2013-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/2bc98a22-7930-4bcc-aad2-14547378e8ca	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	6ef7f52e98c678989a780fd40e0f7db1b5facd2b2b02eaf053ae2d09bc78e819	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 238 (2013_14) — Public School Employees Retirement System; limitation on maximum level of benefits; clarify certain provisions

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 47-4-101 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to retirement benefits payable under the Public School Employees Retirement System, so as to clarify certain provisions relating to a limitation on the maximum level of retirement benefits; to provide an effective date; 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 238/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 21 2048/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 21 2176S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 21 2176S/hs (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 163–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Brooks Coleman — primary (person)
• Howard Maxwell — primary (person)
• John Carson — primary (person)
• Lynne Riley — primary (person)
• Paul Battles — primary (person)
• Tommy Benton — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-02-06 House Hopper
• 2013-02-07 House First Readers reading-1
• 2013-02-08 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2013-03-04 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-03-05 House Postponed
• 2013-03-07 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2013-03-07 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2013-03-11 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2013-03-14 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-03-20 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2013-03-26 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2013-03-26 Senate Tabled
• 2013-03-28 Senate Taken from Table
• 2013-03-28 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2013-04-04 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2013-05-06 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2013-05-06 Act 238 executive-signature
• 2013-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2bc98a22-7930-4bcc-aad2-14547378e8ca. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).