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type: "Bill"
title: "Teachers Retirement System of Georgia; employ beneficiaries; permit public school systems"
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2021_22"
identifier: "HB 385"
citation: "Georgia HB 385 (2021_22)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Becky Evans", "Dave Belton", "Dominic LaRiccia", "Jan Jones", "Shaw Blackmon", "Will Wade"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 15
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-02-09"
last_action: "2022-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0e682fca-72eb-46c0-9713-730133d3d78f"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "e4e2cc1d10cef42a74efc2a1f9067e5c964f86c48773b5348e114cf8b43f624b"
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 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](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/197254.pdf)
2. **Auditor's Certification LC 43 2127-ECS** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/204224.pdf)
3. **HB 385/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/209978.pdf)
4. **LC 43 1819-EC/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/197242.pdf)
5. **LC 43 2127-ECS/hcs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/204535.pdf)
6. **LC 43 2127-ECS/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/204223.pdf)
## 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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0e682fca-72eb-46c0-9713-730133d3d78f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).