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type: "Bill"
title: "Employees' Retirement System of Georgia; creditable service for certain law enforcement officers; expand"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 47-2-226 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to certain law enforcement officers permitted to obtain creditable service in the Employees' Retirement System of Georgia under certain conditions, so as to expand the class of law enforcement officers that may obtain creditable service in such retirement system under certain conditions; to provide for related matters; 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: "2017_18"
identifier: "HB 135"
citation: "Georgia HB 135 (2017_18)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Amy Carter", "Andrew Welch", "Bill Hitchens", "Eddie Lumsden", "Kevin Tanner"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 16
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2017-01-25"
last_action: "2018-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3dd70111-7f65-479f-b619-422ba53e3447"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "f2eff6a2544b507bf0099438de904085fcae34aafdc68cd0485ebcba8a2ca1d4"
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 135 (2017_18) — Employees' Retirement System of Georgia; creditable service for certain law enforcement officers; expand
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 47-2-226 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to certain law enforcement officers permitted to obtain creditable service in the Employees' Retirement System of Georgia under certain conditions, so as to expand the class of law enforcement officers that may obtain creditable service in such retirement system under certain conditions; to provide for related matters; 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.
## Votes
- PASSAGE — **1567** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Amy Carter — primary (person)
- Andrew Welch — primary (person)
- Bill Hitchens — primary (person)
- Eddie Lumsden — primary (person)
- Kevin Tanner — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-01-25** House Hopper
- **2017-01-26** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2017-01-30** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2018-01-25** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-01-30** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2018-01-30** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2018-01-31** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-14** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-15** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2018-03-09** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2018-03-09** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2018-03-21** House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
- **2018-04-02** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2018-05-03** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-03** Act 303 `executive-signature`
- **2018-07-01** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3dd70111-7f65-479f-b619-422ba53e3447`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).