republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2025-26/hb-78.md

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Bill	Employees' Retirement System of Georgia; total percentage of funds invested in alternative investments; raise limit	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 7 of Chapter 20 of Title 47 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, the "Public Retirement Systems Investment Authority Law," so as to raise the limit for the total percentage of funds that the Employees' Retirement System of Georgia may invest in alternative investments; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2025_26	HB 78	Georgia HB 78 (2025_26)	bill	RETIREMENT AND PENSIONS	enacted	Bill Yearta Gary Richardson John Carson Lehman Franklin Mike Cameron	6	17	2	2025-01-16	2025-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/5b3024f6-a283-444a-8b64-99b1816dd1be	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	f9d0bd9ae7b83062215735b594c58a7216bb681e99ae3b3ec0345c1d3e5a4af0	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 78 (2025_26) — Employees' Retirement System of Georgia; total percentage of funds invested in alternative investments; raise limit

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 7 of Chapter 20 of Title 47 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, the "Public Retirement Systems Investment Authority Law," so as to raise the limit for the total percentage of funds that the Employees' Retirement System of Georgia may invest in alternative investments; to provide for related matters; 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 56 0227 (committee substitute) — source
2. Auditor's Certification LC 56 0319S (committee substitute) — source
3. HB 78/AP* (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 56 0227/a (committee substitute) — source
5. LC 56 0319S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
6. LC 56 0319S/hs (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate Vote #427 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 35–18 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #72 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 161–9 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bill Yearta — primary (person)
• Gary Richardson — primary (person)
• John Carson — primary (person)
• Lehman Franklin — primary (person)
• Mike Cameron — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-16 House Hopper introduction
• 2025-01-17 House First Readers reading-1
• 2025-01-27 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2025-02-20 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-02-24 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2025-02-24 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2025-02-26 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2025-03-13 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-18 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2025-04-02 Senate Tabled
• 2025-04-02 Senate Taken from Table
• 2025-04-02 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2025-04-02 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2025-04-08 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-05-01 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2025-05-01 Act 63 executive-signature
• 2025-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5b3024f6-a283-444a-8b64-99b1816dd1be. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).