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05 LC 21 8221

House Bill 851

By: Representative Jacobs of the 80th

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT

To amend Part 9 of Article 8 of Chapter 2 of Title 47 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to judges and other court employees and certain county employees as members of the Employeeś Retirement System of Georgia, so as to provide that a member of such retirement system may obtain creditable service for certain prior service as an employee of a community service board; to provide for application and payment; to provide conditions for an effective date and automatic repeal; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:

SECTION 1.

Part 9 of Article 8 of Chapter 2 of Title 47 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to judges and other court employees and certain county employees as members of the Employeeś Retirement System of Georgia, is amended by inserting at the end thereof new Code section to read as follows:

"47-2-300.

(a) Any member who, immediately before becoming a member of this retirement system, was an employee of a community service board created by Code Section 37-2-6 and who, at the time of such service, was a vested, inactive member of this retirement system and had not withdrawn his or her contributions from this retirement system, may obtain creditable service for such prior service as an employee of a community service board.

(b) In order to obtain creditable service as provided by this Code section, the member shall make application to the board of trustees in such form as the board deems proper, accompanied by such evidence of prior employment as the board deems necessary and payment of the employer and employee contributions which would have been paid by or on behalf of the member if he or she had been a member of this retirement system during the period covered, together with regular interest thereon.

(c) Application and payment for the creditable service provided by this Code section must be made not later than December 31, 2006."

SECTION 2.

This Act shall become effective on July 1, 2006, only if it is determined to have been concurrently funded as provided in Chapter 20 of Title 47 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, the "Public Retirement Systems Standards Law"; otherwise, this Act shall not become effective and shall be automatically repealed in its entirety on July 1, 2006, as required by subsection (a) of Code Section 47-20-50.

SECTION 3.

All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.