Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 47. RETIREMENT AND PENSIONS · Chapter 2. EMPLOYEES’ RETIREMENT SYSTEM OF GEORGIA · Article 8. PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO PARTICULAR GROUPS OF EMPLOYEES · Part 2. Members and Employees of the General Assembly

47-2-162. Eligibility of persons who are members of the General Assembly during or after January, 1962, for survivors benefits; contributions for such coverage; right to decline coverage.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

(a)
Beginning in January, 1962, current and future members of the General Assembly shall make contributions to the retirement system for the limited purpose of providing survivors benefits under Code Sections 47-2-128 and 47-2-129, provided that any member of the General Assembly may reject such coverage, in which case no contributions shall be made by him or her; provided, further, that the provisions of this Code section shall not apply to any person who becomes or again becomes a member of the General Assembly on or after July 1, 2009.#
(b)
If a member accepts such coverage, the legislative fiscal officer is authorized and directed to pay to the board of trustees from funds appropriated for the operation of the General Assembly all accumulated contributions for survivors benefits that would have been paid had members of the General Assembly received survivors benefits coverage when it was originally extended to members of the retirement system.#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Ga. L. 1962, p. 54, § 3; Ga. L. 2009, p. 398, § 1/SB 177.

Other notes

The 2009 amendment, effective July 1, 2009, near the end of subsection (a), inserted ‘‘or her’’ and substituted ‘‘the provisions of this Code section shall not apply to any person who becomes or again becomes a member of the General Assembly on or after July 1, 2009’’ for ‘‘in the event of the death of any member of the 1962 General Assembly prior to February 13, 1962, such member shall be deemed to have elected survivors benefits coverage, in which case any benefits payable shall be made to the deceased member’s surviving spouse and shall be paid from the sum of all contributions required under this Code section’’ at the end.

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Text read from t47-(v35)-2010-pdf.pdf, Volume V35, 2010 edition, page 144; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 670b44b1738a.

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