republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2019-20/sb-249.md

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Bill	Peace Officers' Annuity and Benefit Fund; amount of monthly dues paid; increase; amounts collected from fines; revise	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 17 of Title 47 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the Peace Officers' Annuity and Benefit Fund, so as to increase the amount of monthly dues paid by members of the fund; to revise amounts collected from certain fines and forfeitures in criminal and quasi-criminal cases; to increase the monthly benefit allowed upon retirement; 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	2019_20	SB 249	Georgia SB 249 (2019_20)	bill		enacted	John Albers Randy Robertson Tyler Harper	9	18	1	2019-03-19	2020-08-03	openstates	ocd-bill/2ec87213-7afb-4f16-b90d-c4148868b2f6	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	ebe46116e27bc88ad95d19661849314d28ae0ab1b0cc6ac0d7f1efe6126bb859	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 249 (2019_20) — Peace Officers' Annuity and Benefit Fund; amount of monthly dues paid; increase; amounts collected from fines; revise

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 17 of Title 47 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the Peace Officers' Annuity and Benefit Fund, so as to increase the amount of monthly dues paid by members of the fund; to revise amounts collected from certain fines and forfeitures in criminal and quasi-criminal cases; to increase the monthly benefit allowed upon retirement; 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 1347 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 43 1471S (committee substitute) — source
4. SB 249/AP* (committee substitute) — source
5. SB249 Actuarial Investigation LC 43 1471S (committee substitute) — source
6. SB249 Auditor's Certification (committee substitute) — source
7. SB249 Auditors Certification LC 43 1471S (committee substitute) — source
8. SB249 Consulting Letter Part 1 LC 43 1471S (committee substitute) — source
9. SB249 Consulting Letter Part 2 LC 43 1471S (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — 48–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• John Albers — primary (person)
• Randy Robertson — primary (person)
• Tyler Harper — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-03-19 Senate Hopper
• 2019-03-21 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2020-02-27 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-02-28 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2020-03-05 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2020-03-05 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2020-03-09 House First Readers reading-1
• 2020-03-10 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2020-06-16 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-06-18 House Postponed
• 2020-06-19 House Postponed
• 2020-06-20 House Postponed
• 2020-06-22 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2020-06-22 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2020-06-25 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2020-07-01 Effective Date
• 2020-08-03 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2020-08-03 Act 551 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2ec87213-7afb-4f16-b90d-c4148868b2f6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).