Georgia CommonsHouse · Passed · 2025-2026 Regular Session
HB 1349: Fulton County; Board of Education; pension board; revise membership
Last action May 11, 2026 · Effective Date
A Fulton County-only bill would change how one seat on the Fulton County Board of Education's teacher pension board is filled, requiring an at-large member to be nominated by the pension board itself and approved by the school board.
The summaries below were written by an AI model (claude-sonnet-5) from the text of the bill and are not part of it. Quote the text, not the summary. The stored text is the Enrolled version, the latest the General Assembly's website lists.
In plain language
Fulton County runs a separate pension and retirement system for teachers and employees of the Fulton County Board of Education, created by a 1945 state law and amended several times since. This bill changes one detail of that system: how the pension board's at-large member is chosen. Under the revised rule, that member must still be an active or retired participant in the pension plan, but now the pension board itself nominates the person, and the Fulton County Board of Education appoints them. The bill does not touch benefit levels, funding, or other pension board seats. It only rewrites paragraph (6) of subsection (b) of Section 12.01 of the underlying 1945 Act, as previously amended in 2017 and 2018. It then repeals any conflicting laws, a standard closing provision in Georgia local legislation.
What the bill does
- Rewrites paragraph (6) of subsection (b) of Section 12.01 of the 1945 Fulton County teacher pension Act to change how the at-large pension board member is selected.
- Requires the pension board to nominate the at-large member, rather than some other selection method used before.
- Keeps the appointment authority with the Fulton County Board of Education, so the school board still finalizes the choice.
- Keeps the existing requirement that the at-large member be an active or retired participant in the pension plan.
- Repeals any other laws that conflict with this change, a standard closing clause in Georgia local bills.
Who it affects
Current and retired teachers and staff who participate in the Fulton County Board of Education's pension plan, the pension board itself, and the Fulton County Board of Education, which appoints board members under this system.
Why it matters
The change affects who gets a voice on the body overseeing Fulton County teachers' pension fund by shifting how one board seat is filled. It does not change benefits or funding, but it does adjust the process by which plan participants are represented in pension governance.
Key provisions
- Section 1 amends paragraph (6) of subsection (b) of Section 12.01 of the 1945 Act, as amended in 2017 and 2018, to revise the at-large pension board seat.
- The revised language requires the pension board to nominate the at-large member, who is then appointed by the Fulton County Board of Education.
- The at-large member must be an active or retired participant in the pension plan, unchanged from prior law.
- Section 2 repeals any conflicting laws, a standard closing provision with no independent substantive effect.
From the bill
“One at-large member nominated by the pension board and appointed by the board of education who shall be an active or retired participant in the plan.”
Discussed in meetings (5)
The House and Senate meetings that took this bill up, from their machine transcripts. Each account was written by Georgia Commons with AI and is not part of the record; the video is what was said.
House floor session, March 10, 2026 (legislative day 30)
From 0:50:27 · Watch on the General Assembly's Vimeo channel · Confirmed by the 2026 House Journal, p. 2377
Summary by Georgia Commons: The clerk read the local committee's recommendation to pass the Fulton County bill. The House later included it in a group of 12 uncontested local bills and passed the group by 159 to 0, without separate presentation or debate.
- Read aloud: House floor session, February 18, 2026 (legislative day 20), 0:28:00
- Read aloud: House floor session, February 19, 2026 (legislative day 21), 0:52:03
- Read aloud: Senate floor session, March 12, 2026 (legislative day 31), 0:24:08
- Read aloud: Senate floor session, March 19, 2026 (legislative day 34), 0:42:17
Status timeline
- Effective Date
- Act 558
- House Date Signed by Governor (House)
- House Sent to Governor (House)
- Senate Passed/Adopted (Senate)
- Senate Committee Favorably Reported (Senate)
- Senate Read and Referred (Senate)
- House Passed/Adopted (House)
Show full history (13 actions)
- House Third Readers (House)
- House Committee Favorably Reported (House)
- House Second Readers (House)
- House First Readers (House)
- House Hopper (House)
Sponsors
- Lydia Glaize (D, HD-67)
- Tanya F. Miller (D, HD-62)
- Robert Dawson (D, HD-65)
- Esther Panitch (D, HD-51)
- Debra Bazemore (D, HD-69)
- Shea Roberts (D, HD-52)
Votes
- House voteMarch 10, 2026
159 yea, 0 nay (5 not voting, 12 excused)
- Senate voteMarch 19, 2026
49 yea, 0 nay (3 not voting, 2 excused)
Topics
- Fulton County
- teacher pensions
- local legislation
- school board governance