republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2025-26/sb-150.md

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Bill	Retirement; permit public school systems to employ certain beneficiaries of the Teachers Retirement System of Georgia as classroom teachers; extend the program	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 7 of Chapter 3 of Title 47 of the O.C.G.A., relating to retirement allowances, disability benefits, and spouses' benefits, so as to extend the program to permit public school systems to employ certain beneficiaries of the Teachers Retirement System of Georgia as classroom teachers in a full-time capacity to June 30, 2034; to reduce the number of years worked by a beneficiary to 25 before being eligible to be hired under this Code section; 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	2025_26	SB 150	Georgia SB 150 (2025_26)	bill	RETIREMENT AND PENSIONS	enacted	Billy Hickman Chuck Payne Jason Anavitarte John F. Kennedy Kay Kirkpatrick Shawn Still Steve Gooch	9	16	3	2025-02-12	2026-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/508eeed5-bab8-4e5b-ad92-3f3d6a274e08	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	c9dac010522a3c27aa4919af7294ff54d4311cc27d2f209cb3b52e74e51794ec	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 150 (2025_26) — Retirement; permit public school systems to employ certain beneficiaries of the Teachers Retirement System of Georgia as classroom teachers; extend the program

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 7 of Chapter 3 of Title 47 of the O.C.G.A., relating to retirement allowances, disability benefits, and spouses' benefits, so as to extend the program to permit public school systems to employ certain beneficiaries of the Teachers Retirement System of Georgia as classroom teachers in a full-time capacity to June 30, 2034; to reduce the number of years worked by a beneficiary to 25 before being eligible to be hired under this Code section; 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 (committee substitute) — source
2. As Passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. As introduced LC 56 0274 (committee substitute) — source
4. Auditor's Certification (committee substitute) — source
5. Auditor's Certification LC 56 0700S (committee substitute) — source
6. Committee Sub LC 56 0522S (committee substitute) — source
7. LC 56 0274 Auditor's Certification (committee substitute) — source
8. LC 56 0700S/hss (committee substitute) — source
9. SB 150/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• House Vote #775 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 159–0 (pass) · lower
• Senate Vote #916 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 49–0 (pass) · upper
• Senate Vote #529 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 48–1 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Billy Hickman — primary (person)
• Chuck Payne — primary (person)
• Jason Anavitarte — primary (person)
• John F. Kennedy — primary (person)
• Kay Kirkpatrick — primary (person)
• Shawn Still — primary (person)
• Steve Gooch — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-12 Senate Hopper introduction
• 2025-02-13 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2026-02-04 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-02-05 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2026-02-09 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2026-02-09 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2026-02-10 House First Readers reading-1
• 2026-02-11 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2026-03-25 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-03-27 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2026-03-27 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2026-03-31 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2026-04-10 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2026-05-05 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2026-05-05 Act 399 executive-signature
• 2026-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/508eeed5-bab8-4e5b-ad92-3f3d6a274e08. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).