{"data":{"id":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-47-20-30","jurisdiction":"us-ga","citation":"O.C.G.A. § 47-20-30","heading":"Definitions.","body":"As used in this article, the term:\n(1) “Amendment” means any amendment, including a substitute bill, made to a retirement bill by any committee of the House or Senate or by the House or Senate.\n(2) “LC number” means that number preceded by the letters “LC” assigned to a bill by the Office of Legislative Counsel when that office prepares a bill for a member of the General Assembly.\n(3) “Nonfiscal amendment” means an amendment to a retirement bill having a fiscal impact, which amendment does not change any factor of an actuarial investigation specified in subsection (a) of Code Section 47-20-36.\n(4) “Nonfiscal retirement bill” means a retirement bill which does not affect the cost or funding factors of a retirement system or a retirement bill which affects such factors only in a manner which does not:\n(A) Grant a benefit increase under the retirement system affected by the bill;\n(B) Create an actuarial accrued liability for or increase the actuarial accrued liability of the retirement system affected by the bill; or\n(C) Increase the normal cost of the retirement system affected by the bill.\n(4.1) “Nonfiscal retirement bill” also means a retirement bill which removes or increases a mandatory retirement age of a retirement system or which removes or modifies provisions of a retirement system requiring forfeiture of benefits upon failure to retire upon reaching a mandatory retirement age or which provides for any combination of the foregoing.\n(5) “Reduction in cost amendment” means an amendment to a retirement bill having a fiscal impact which reduces the cost of the bill as such cost is determined by the actuarial investigation for the bill prepared pursuant to Code Section 47-20-36.\n(6) “Retirement bill having a fiscal impact” means any retirement bill creating or establishing a retirement system and any other retirement bill other than a nonfiscal retirement bill. Such term shall include any bill requiring a public retirement system to divest or refrain from investing in specific investments or classes of investments.","path":["TITLE 47 Retirement and Pensions","CHAPTER 20 Public Retirement Systems Standards","Article 4 Retirement Bills in General Assembly","PART 1 General Provisions"],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ga.ocga.2018/release86.2022.11/gov.ga.ocga.title.47.odt","current_through":"Release 86 (2022-11)","vintage":"Public.Resource.Org bulk O.C.G.A., Release 86 (2022-11), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T19:34:57Z","sha256":"03f96c327f425f8ea3391a391d89df0e09a56e54e09dd962168051cdfe8f7693","source_id":"us-ga","stale":false,"prev":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-47-20-21","next":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-47-20-31"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}