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type: "Bill"
title: "Retirement and pensions; officers employed by Department of Community Supervision shall be entitled to certain disability benefits; provide"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 47-2-221 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to disability allowances payable to personnel for certain disabilities arising in the line of duty, so as to provide that community supervision officers employed by the Department of Community Supervision shall be entitled to certain disability benefits; to provide conditions for an effective date and automatic repeal; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2015_16"
identifier: "HB 421"
citation: "Georgia HB 421 (2015_16)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chad Nimmer", "Christian Coomer", "Robert Dickey", "Terry Rogers"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 16
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2015-02-19"
last_action: "2016-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/779d531b-4dcb-4b9c-be4e-97acacefdb20"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "3ca8ea9d697c7f276d4100114b1e01cefacd11cc82c1a8515b3c242d862857b3"
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 421 (2015_16) — Retirement and pensions; officers employed by Department of Community Supervision shall be entitled to certain disability benefits; provide
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 47-2-221 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to disability allowances payable to personnel for certain disabilities arising in the line of duty, so as to provide that community supervision officers employed by the Department of Community Supervision shall be entitled to certain disability benefits; 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. **HB 421/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/160482.pdf)
2. **LC 21 3669-EC/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/148651.pdf)
3. **LC 43 0253-ECS/hcs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/156365.pdf)
4. **LC 43 0253-ECS/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/155889.pdf)
## Votes
- PASSAGE — **1651** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Chad Nimmer — primary (person)
- Christian Coomer — primary (person)
- Robert Dickey — primary (person)
- Terry Rogers — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2015-02-19** House Hopper
- **2015-02-20** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2015-02-23** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2015-03-05** House Withdrawn, Recommitted `referral-committee, withdrawal`
- **2016-01-28** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2016-02-03** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2016-02-03** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2016-02-04** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2016-02-25** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2016-02-26** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2016-03-14** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2016-03-14** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2016-03-28** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2016-04-26** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2016-04-26** Act 400 `executive-signature`
- **2016-07-01** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/779d531b-4dcb-4b9c-be4e-97acacefdb20`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).