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type: "Bill"
title: "Georgia Judicial Retirement System; member who was serving in a full-time position on his or her retirement may use prior part-time service for vesting; provide"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 47-23-63 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to definition and effect of full-time and part-time service and calculations, so as to provide that a member of the Georgia Judicial Retirement System who was serving in a full-time position on his or her retirement may use prior part-time service for vesting; 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 605"
citation: "Georgia HB 605 (2015_16)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Andrew Welch", "Tom Weldon"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2015-03-11"
last_action: "2016-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7cf67e7f-76fe-4cc7-a653-387f5345ea15"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "4ba238075efec0ae3f890a1f7e93516f3d119263c95d9523ffb9e3781e253d94"
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 605 (2015_16) — Georgia Judicial Retirement System; member who was serving in a full-time position on his or her retirement may use prior part-time service for vesting; provide
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 47-23-63 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to definition and effect of full-time and part-time service and calculations, so as to provide that a member of the Georgia Judicial Retirement System who was serving in a full-time position on his or her retirement may use prior part-time service for vesting; 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 605/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/162447.pdf)
2. **LC 43 0077/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/151005.pdf)
3. **LC 43 0175S/hcs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/159316.pdf)
4. **LC 43 0175S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/154590.pdf)
## Votes
- PASSAGE — **134–29** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Andrew Welch — primary (person)
- Tom Weldon — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2015-03-11** House Hopper
- **2015-03-13** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2015-03-18** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2016-01-14** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2016-02-29** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2016-02-29** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2016-03-02** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2016-03-10** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2016-03-11** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2016-03-22** Senate Tabled
- **2016-03-24** Senate Taken from Table
- **2016-03-24** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2016-03-24** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2016-03-30** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2016-04-26** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2016-04-26** Act 426 `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/7cf67e7f-76fe-4cc7-a653-387f5345ea15`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).