republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2021-22/hb-385.md

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Bill	Teachers Retirement System of Georgia; employ beneficiaries; permit public school systems	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 7 of Chapter 3 of Title 47 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to retirement allowances, disability benefits, and spouses' benefits, so as to permit public school systems to employ beneficiaries of the Teachers Retirement System of Georgia as classroom teachers in a full-time capacity in an area of highest need determined for the Regional Education Service Agency to which such public school system is assigned; to require such employers to make employer and employee contributions on behalf of such employed beneficiaries; to provide for conditions and limitations for beneficiaries who return to service full time as teachers; to provide for a performance audit; to provide for related matters; to provide for a definition; to provide conditions for an effective date and automatic repeal; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2021_22	HB 385	Georgia HB 385 (2021_22)	bill		enacted	Becky Evans Dave Belton Dominic LaRiccia Jan Jones Shaw Blackmon Will Wade	6	15	1	2021-02-09	2022-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/0e682fca-72eb-46c0-9713-730133d3d78f	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	e4e2cc1d10cef42a74efc2a1f9067e5c964f86c48773b5348e114cf8b43f624b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 385 (2021_22) — Teachers Retirement System of Georgia; employ beneficiaries; permit public school systems

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 7 of Chapter 3 of Title 47 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to retirement allowances, disability benefits, and spouses' benefits, so as to permit public school systems to employ beneficiaries of the Teachers Retirement System of Georgia as classroom teachers in a full-time capacity in an area of highest need determined for the Regional Education Service Agency to which such public school system is assigned; to require such employers to make employer and employee contributions on behalf of such employed beneficiaries; to provide for conditions and limitations for beneficiaries who return to service full time as teachers; to provide for a performance audit; to provide for related matters; to provide for a definition; 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. Auditor's Certification LC 43 1819-EC (committee substitute) — source
2. Auditor's Certification LC 43 2127-ECS (committee substitute) — source
3. HB 385/AP* (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 43 1819-EC/a (committee substitute) — source
5. LC 43 2127-ECS/hcs (committee substitute) — source
6. LC 43 2127-ECS/hs (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 169–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Becky Evans — primary (person)
• Dave Belton — primary (person)
• Dominic LaRiccia — primary (person)
• Jan Jones — primary (person)
• Shaw Blackmon — primary (person)
• Will Wade — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-09 House Hopper
• 2021-02-10 House First Readers reading-1
• 2021-02-11 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2022-01-27 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-02-01 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2022-02-01 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2022-02-02 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2022-02-24 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-02-28 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2022-03-22 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2022-03-22 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2022-04-06 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2022-04-28 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2022-04-28 Act 724 executive-signature
• 2022-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0e682fca-72eb-46c0-9713-730133d3d78f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).