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type: "Bill"
title: "Firefighters' Pension Fund; invest up to 10 percent in real estate; provide"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 47-20-83 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to certificated or uncertificated forms of investment and real estate investments, so as to provide that the Georgia Firefighters' Pension Fund may invest up to 10 percent of the total assets of its fund in real estate; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2017_18"
identifier: "HB 83"
citation: "Georgia HB 83 (2017_18)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brooks Coleman", "David Wilkerson", "Gerald Greene", "Howard Maxwell", "Tom Kirby"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 16
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2017-01-23"
last_action: "2017-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7739861b-0446-4ce7-97ff-33a0f41314d4"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "020ac747a06c2059cb04f4d8c0c296a7e959aa2a7807fd4d06944f70da124db7"
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 83 (2017_18) — Firefighters' Pension Fund; invest up to 10 percent in real estate; provide
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 47-20-83 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to certificated or uncertificated forms of investment and real estate investments, so as to provide that the Georgia Firefighters' Pension Fund may invest up to 10 percent of the total assets of its fund in real estate; to provide for related matters; 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 — **1640** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Brooks Coleman — primary (person)
- David Wilkerson — primary (person)
- Gerald Greene — primary (person)
- Howard Maxwell — primary (person)
- Tom Kirby — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-01-23** House Hopper
- **2017-01-24** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2017-01-25** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2017-02-01** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-10** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2017-02-10** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2017-02-14** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-28** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-01** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2017-03-15** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2017-03-15** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2017-03-22** House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
- **2017-04-03** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2017-05-01** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2017-05-01** Act 46 `executive-signature`
- **2017-07-01** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7739861b-0446-4ce7-97ff-33a0f41314d4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).