Bill Text: GA HB625 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Peace Officers' Annuity and Benefit Fund; communications officers; provide membership

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-31 - House Second Readers [HB625 Detail]

Download: Georgia-2011-HB625-Introduced.html

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11 LC 21 2010

House Bill 625

By: Representative Hatfield of the 177th

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 provide for membership in such fund for communications officers; to provide for creditable service for prior service; to provide for contributions; to provide for related matters; 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.

Chapter 17 of Title 47 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the Peace Officers' Annuity and Benefit Fund, is amended by revising paragraph (5) of Code Section 47-17-1, relating to definitions relative to the Peace Officers' Annuity and Benefit Fund, by striking the word "and" at the end of subparagraph (J), by striking the period and inserting in its place "; and" at the end of subparagraph (K), and by adding a new subparagraph to read as follows:

"(L) Any communications officer employed by a local governmental agency to receive, process, or transmit public safety information and dispatch law enforcement officers, firefighters, medical personnel, or emergency management personnel who is certified pursuant to Code Section 35-8-23."

SECTION 2.

Said chapter is further amended by adding a new Code section to read as follows:

"47-17-72.

Any communications officer who becomes a member of this fund between July 1, 2012, and December, 2012, may obtain up to five years of creditable service for prior service as a communications officer. Such person shall make application and provide proof of such period of prior service as the board deems appropriate and shall pay to the board the dues which he or she would have paid if he or she had been a member of the fund during such period of prior service."

SECTION 3.

This Act shall become effective on July 1, 2012, 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, 2012, as required by subsection (a) of Code Section 47-20-50.

SECTION 4.

All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.