republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2019-20/hb-196.md

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Bill	Retirement and pensions; each public retirement system trustee to complete appropriate education applicable to his or her fiduciary duties; require	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 1 of Title 47 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions relative to retirement and pensions, so as to require each public retirement system trustee to complete appropriate education applicable to his or her fiduciary duties and obligations under the public retirement system; to provide for definitions; to provide for removal of trustees who fail to obtain such education; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2019_20	HB 196	Georgia HB 196 (2019_20)	bill		enacted	Tommy Benton	6	17	1	2019-02-07	2019-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/29224dba-b889-4a49-a39a-d3b335f217ae	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	0a99e496812e34f96545ad53945b7fe915693775ae194cbde68e985629d8bdbb	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 196 (2019_20) — Retirement and pensions; each public retirement system trustee to complete appropriate education applicable to his or her fiduciary duties; require

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 1 of Title 47 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions relative to retirement and pensions, so as to require each public retirement system trustee to complete appropriate education applicable to his or her fiduciary duties and obligations under the public retirement system; to provide for definitions; to provide for removal of trustees who fail to obtain such education; 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.

1. HB 196/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 43 1180ER/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 43 1298ERS/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 43 1298ERS/hs (committee substitute) — source
5. Retirement Certification LC 43 1180ER (committee substitute) — source
6. Retirement Certification LC 43 1298ERS (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 152–13 (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
• 2019-02-19 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-02-25 House Withdrawn, Recommitted withdrawal, referral-committee
• 2019-02-27 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-03-05 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2019-03-05 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2019-03-07 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2019-03-14 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-03-18 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2019-03-22 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2019-03-22 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2019-04-04 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2019-05-07 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2019-05-07 Act 244 executive-signature
• 2019-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/29224dba-b889-4a49-a39a-d3b335f217ae. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).