republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2013-14/hb-843.md

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Bill	Retirement and pensions; ensure compliance with federal laws and regulations; change certain provisions	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 47 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to retirement and pensions, so as to change certain provisions to ensure compliance with federal laws and regulations; to change provisions relative to maximum allowable benefits; to provide that certain employees shall have no right to receive as cash certain employer paid employee contributions; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2013_14	HB 843	Georgia HB 843 (2013_14)	bill		enacted	Debbie Buckner Gerald Greene Howard Maxwell Lynne Riley Patty Bentley Paul Battles	2	15	1	2014-01-24	2014-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/c0287d25-f5dc-44eb-b733-622fbecd9580	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	81b18df0ccf10328e26b1a29cf686e64e4a2cd19b4618487f9780d6de253a138	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 843 (2013_14) — Retirement and pensions; ensure compliance with federal laws and regulations; change certain provisions

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 47 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to retirement and pensions, so as to change certain provisions to ensure compliance with federal laws and regulations; to change provisions relative to maximum allowable benefits; to provide that certain employees shall have no right to receive as cash certain employer paid employee contributions; 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 843/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 21 2324/a (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 155–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Debbie Buckner — primary (person)
• Gerald Greene — primary (person)
• Howard Maxwell — primary (person)
• Lynne Riley — primary (person)
• Patty Bentley — primary (person)
• Paul Battles — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2014-01-24 House Hopper
• 2014-01-27 House First Readers reading-1
• 2014-01-28 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2014-02-19 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2014-02-24 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2014-02-24 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2014-02-25 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2014-03-05 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2014-03-06 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2014-03-10 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2014-03-10 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2014-03-24 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2014-04-15 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2014-04-15 Act 521 executive-signature
• 2014-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c0287d25-f5dc-44eb-b733-622fbecd9580. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).