republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2013-14/sb-142.md

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Bill	Georgia Judicial Retirement System; board of trustees; authority to determine the time/circumstances of paying benefits; qualified plan under federal law	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 6 of Chapter 23 of Title 47 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to salary, retirement, death, and disability benefits under the Georgia Judicial Retirement System, so as to provide that the board of trustees shall have the authority to determine the time and circumstances of paying benefits to the extent necessary to preserve the retirement system's status as a qualified plan under federal law; to provide that a prohibition against a person receiving a pension from accepting public employment shall apply to persons who become members on or after July 1, 2014, without regard to age; to require notice to the board of trustees of such employment; to provide for penalties; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2013_14	SB 142	Georgia SB 142 (2013_14)	bill		enacted	Fran Millar	6	16	1	2013-02-11	2013-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/1874440c-c715-4557-8971-bb8d9f036e08	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	948148043ace742fc67a252236e003c6efb52798ee572762083ad31b15ed6bb8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 142 (2013_14) — Georgia Judicial Retirement System; board of trustees; authority to determine the time/circumstances of paying benefits; qualified plan under federal law

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 6 of Chapter 23 of Title 47 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to salary, retirement, death, and disability benefits under the Georgia Judicial Retirement System, so as to provide that the board of trustees shall have the authority to determine the time and circumstances of paying benefits to the extent necessary to preserve the retirement system's status as a qualified plan under federal law; to provide that a prohibition against a person receiving a pension from accepting public employment shall apply to persons who become members on or after July 1, 2014, without regard to age; to require notice to the board of trustees of such employment; to provide for penalties; 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. As introduced LC 21 2051 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 21 2123S (committee substitute) — source
4. Fiscal Impact Note (committee substitute) — source
5. LC 21 2187S/hss (committee substitute) — source
6. SB 142/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — 49–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Fran Millar — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-02-11 Senate Hopper
• 2013-02-12 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2013-02-21 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-02-22 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2013-02-28 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2013-02-28 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2013-03-01 House First Readers reading-1
• 2013-03-04 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2013-03-14 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-03-26 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2013-03-26 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2013-03-28 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2013-04-04 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2013-05-06 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2013-05-06 Act 215 executive-signature
• 2013-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1874440c-c715-4557-8971-bb8d9f036e08. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).