republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2019-20/hb-195.md

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Bill	Georgia Firefighters' Pension Fund; increase benefit amount payable to beneficiaries after the member's death	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 6 of Chapter 7 of Title 47 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to retirement, retirement allowances, disability benefits, and death benefits relative to the Georgia Firefighters' Pension Fund, so as to increase the benefit amount payable to beneficiaries after the member's death; to provide for related matters; to provide conditions for an effective date and automatic repeal; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2019_20	HB 195	Georgia HB 195 (2019_20)	bill		enacted	Tommy Benton	4	16	1	2019-02-07	2020-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/48ceda92-218d-4f3e-97b7-fd980166371e	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	11664f631568c52aa8429398094652d69609f48b57e2bd7447dd6a4d8f2db771	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 195 (2019_20) — Georgia Firefighters' Pension Fund; increase benefit amount payable to beneficiaries after the member's death

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 6 of Chapter 7 of Title 47 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to retirement, retirement allowances, disability benefits, and death benefits relative to the Georgia Firefighters' Pension Fund, so as to increase the benefit amount payable to beneficiaries after the member's death; 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.

1. Actuarial Investigation - LC 43 1171 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB 195/AP* (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 43 1171/a (committee substitute) — source
4. Retirement Certification LC 43 1171 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 168–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Tommy Benton — primary (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2019-02-07 House Hopper
• 2019-02-08 House First Readers reading-1
• 2019-02-11 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2020-01-29 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-02-18 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2020-02-18 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2020-02-19 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2020-06-18 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-06-19 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2020-06-22 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2020-06-22 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2020-06-22 Senate Transmitted House
• 2020-06-26 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2020-06-29 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2020-06-29 Act 370 executive-signature
• 2020-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/48ceda92-218d-4f3e-97b7-fd980166371e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).