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type: "Bill"
title: "Georgia Municipal Employees Benefit System; total percentage of investments permissible in real estate investments; increase"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 47-20-83 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to certificated or uncertificated forms of investment and real estate investments, so as to increase the total percentage of investments permissible in real estate investments for the Georgia Municipal Employees Benefit System and any association of like political subdivisions which contracts with its members; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2013_14"
identifier: "HB 71"
citation: "Georgia HB 71 (2013_14)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gerald Greene", "Howard Maxwell", "Jan Tankersley", "Lynne Riley", "Susan Holmes", "Tom Taylor"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2013-01-16"
last_action: "2013-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/10918342-f06f-49a8-a4d1-7e5bd2ef0d3f"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "9b9d945bc75b382d54ce8c6b15bbde7d99172f2750284094f46af66c2ff14784"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ga"]
---
# Georgia HB 71 (2013_14) — Georgia Municipal Employees Benefit System; total percentage of investments permissible in real estate investments; increase
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 47-20-83 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to certificated or uncertificated forms of investment and real estate investments, so as to increase the total percentage of investments permissible in real estate investments for the Georgia Municipal Employees Benefit System and any association of like political subdivisions which contracts with its members; 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 71/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/136434.pdf)
2. **LC 21 1886/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/128420.pdf)
## Votes
- PASSAGE — **15013** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Gerald Greene — primary (person)
- Howard Maxwell — primary (person)
- Jan Tankersley — primary (person)
- Lynne Riley — primary (person)
- Susan Holmes — primary (person)
- Tom Taylor — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2013-01-16** House Hopper
- **2013-01-17** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2013-01-28** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2013-02-07** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2013-03-01** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2013-03-01** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2013-03-04** 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 Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2013-04-03** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2013-05-06** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2013-05-06** Act 187 `executive-signature`
- **2013-07-01** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/10918342-f06f-49a8-a4d1-7e5bd2ef0d3f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).