08
LC 21 9555S
House
Bill 639 (COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE)
By:
Representative Sims of the
169th
A
BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
AN ACT
To
amend Code Section 47-2-223 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating
to retirement benefits for those in service in Uniform Division of the
Department of Public Safety, so as to provide that certain persons employed by
the State Board of Pardons and Paroles shall be eligible to retire after
attaining age 55 and receive a normal retirement benefit; 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.
Code
Section 47-2-223 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to
retirement benefits for those in service in Uniform Division of the Department
of Public Safety, is amended by revising subsection (b) as follows:
"(b)
Anything in this chapter to the contrary notwithstanding, every person who is in
service in the Uniform Division of the Department of Public Safety as an
officer, noncommissioned officer, or trooper, or as an officer or agent of the
Georgia Bureau of Investigation on June 30, 1970, and every person who enters or
reenters such service on or after July 1, 1970,
and every
person who is employed by the State Board of Pardons and Paroles who, as a
condition of his or her employment, is required to comply with the requirements
of Chapter 8 of Title 35, the 'Georgia Peace Officer Standards and Training
Act,' on June 30, 2008, and any person who becomes or again becomes so employed
on or after July 1, 2008, may retire at
any time after attaining the age of 55 and upon retirement such retiree shall
receive the regular retirement benefits under this chapter, provided that he or
she shall in any case receive a minimum monthly retirement benefit equal to 2
percent of his or her highest average compensation for each year of creditable
service by filing an application therefor in a manner similar to that provided
in Code Section 47-2-110."
SECTION
2.
This
Act shall become effective on July 1, 2008, 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repealed in its entirety on July 1, 2008, as required by subsection (a) of Code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.