SB 118: State Accounting Office; any payroll system utilized by the state allows for credit union deductions; require

Georgia's State Accounting Office manages the payroll and human capital systems used to pay state employees. This bill amends the law governing that office (O.C.G.A. § 50-5B-3) to add a specific requirement: whatever payroll system the state uses must let employees have deductions sent to any credit union they identify. Currently the law gives the state accounting officer broad authority to manage the state's accounting, payroll, and human capital systems without specifying credit union deduction capability. The bill adds that condition directly into the officer's list of duties. It does not change any other powers or duties listed in the section, and it repeals any conflicting laws.

• Adds a requirement to the state accounting officer's payroll management duties that the state's payroll system must allow deductions to any credit union a payee identifies.
• Amends O.C.G.A. § 50-5B-3(a)(5), which governs how the state accounting officer manages the state's accounting, payroll, and human capital systems.
• Repeals any existing laws that conflict with this new requirement.

State employees who want payroll deductions sent to a credit union, the State Accounting Office which manages the payroll system, and credit unions that would receive these direct payroll deductions from state employee paychecks.

State employees currently may not have the option to have money automatically deducted from their paycheck and sent to a credit union. This bill would guarantee that option becomes part of the state's payroll system, giving employees an easier way to save or make credit union payments directly from their pay.

• Section 1 revises O.C.G.A. § 50-5B-3, the code section listing the state accounting officer's powers and duties.
• Adds a proviso to paragraph (a)(5) stating that any payroll system the state uses must allow for payroll deductions to any credit union identified by a payee.
• Leaves all other listed duties of the state accounting officer, such as prescribing accounting policies and preparing financial statements, unchanged.
• Section 2 repeals any conflicting laws, a standard closing provision.

1. 2025-02-10Senate Read and Referred (Senate)
2. 2025-02-06Senate Hopper (Senate)

• David Lucas (D, SD-026)Primary sponsor
• Matt Brass (R, SD-006)

• state employee payroll
• credit unions
• state government administration
• payroll deductions