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type: "Bill"
title: "Employees' Retirement System of Georgia; prior service as a member of Georgia Defined Contribution Plan; creditable service; provide"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 5 of Chapter 2 of Title 47 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to service creditable toward retirement benefits under the Employees' Retirement System of Georgia, so as to provide for creditable service in the Employees' Retirement System of Georgia for prior service as a member of the Georgia Defined Contribution Plan; to provide for application and payment of the full actuarial cost; 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: "2019_20"
identifier: "SB 26"
citation: "Georgia SB 26 (2019_20)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ellis Black", "William Ligon, Jr."]
version_count: 6
action_count: 15
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2019-01-17"
last_action: "2020-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d1e459c5-7a25-4433-9cb3-30189954b810"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "80526db2e2a56df3f7e0d95fdd4607f9afb77540ac526fa740a964faf4e816d2"
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 SB 26 (2019_20) — Employees' Retirement System of Georgia; prior service as a member of Georgia Defined Contribution Plan; creditable service; provide
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 5 of Chapter 2 of Title 47 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to service creditable toward retirement benefits under the Employees' Retirement System of Georgia, so as to provide for creditable service in the Employees' Retirement System of Georgia for prior service as a member of the Georgia Defined Contribution Plan; to provide for application and payment of the full actuarial cost; 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. **As Introduced LC 43 1098** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/179607.pdf)
2. **As passed Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/189549.pdf)
3. **SB 26/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/194454.pdf)
4. **SB26 Actuarial Investigation** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/189714.pdf)
5. **SB26 Consulting Letter** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/189639.pdf)
6. **SB26 State Auditor's Certification** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/179685.pdf)
## Votes
- PASSAGE — **510** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Ellis Black — primary (person)
- William Ligon, Jr. — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-01-17** Senate Hopper
- **2019-01-28** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-30** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-01-31** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-05** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2020-02-05** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2020-02-18** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2020-02-19** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2020-02-26** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-06-22** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2020-06-22** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2020-06-25** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2020-06-29** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-29** Act 386 `executive-signature`
- **2020-07-01** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d1e459c5-7a25-4433-9cb3-30189954b810`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).