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type: "Bill"
title: "Employees' Retirement System of Georgia; Board of Trustees; include a qualified Roth contribution program in compensation plans"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 18 of Title 45 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to deferred compensation plans, so as to authorize the Board of Trustees of the Employees' Retirement System of Georgia to include a qualified Roth contribution program in state and local deferred compensation plans; to provide for related matters; to provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2017_18"
identifier: "HB 312"
citation: "Georgia HB 312 (2017_18)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brooks Coleman", "Debbie Buckner", "Gerald Greene", "Howard Maxwell", "Lee Hawkins"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 16
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2017-02-09"
last_action: "2018-01-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/85de8f46-f1b6-4658-bff8-13e44babdee2"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "826d7c5bca5f190e0f940b894b78dff949df84bdd964f145b2664d2aed6f6917"
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 312 (2017_18) — Employees' Retirement System of Georgia; Board of Trustees; include a qualified Roth contribution program in compensation plans
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 18 of Title 45 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to deferred compensation plans, so as to authorize the Board of Trustees of the Employees' Retirement System of Georgia to include a qualified Roth contribution program in state and local deferred compensation plans; to provide for related matters; to provide an effective date; 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 — **1670** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Brooks Coleman — primary (person)
- Debbie Buckner — primary (person)
- Gerald Greene — primary (person)
- Howard Maxwell — primary (person)
- Lee Hawkins — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-02-09** House Hopper
- **2017-02-10** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2017-02-14** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2017-02-15** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-24** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2017-02-24** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2017-02-27** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-14** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-15** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2017-03-28** Senate Tabled
- **2017-03-30** Senate Taken from Table
- **2017-03-30** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2017-04-05** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2017-05-09** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2017-05-09** Act 253 `executive-signature`
- **2018-01-01** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/85de8f46-f1b6-4658-bff8-13e44babdee2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).