GEORGIA CONSTITUTION
ARTICLE III SECTION 10
RETIREMENT SYSTEMS

ART. III §10 ¶1 | EXPENDITURE OF PUBLIC FUNDS AUTHORIZED

Public funds may be expended for the purpose of paying benefits and other costs of retirement and pension systems for public officers and employees and their beneficiaries.

ART. III §10 ¶2 | INCREASING BENEFITS AUTHORIZED

Public funds may be expended for the purpose of increasing benefits being paid pursuant to any retirement or pension system wholly or partially supported from public funds.

ART. III §10 ¶3 | RETIREMENT SYSTEMS COVERING EMPLOYEES OF COUNTY BOARDS OF EDUCATION

Notwithstanding Article IX, Section II, Paragraph III(a)(14), the authority to establish or modify heretofore existing local retirement systems covering employees of county boards of education shall continue to be vested in the General Assembly.

ART. III §10 ¶4 | FIREMEN’S PENSION SYSTEM

The powers of taxation may be exercised by the state through the General Assembly and the counties and municipalities for the purpose of paying pensions and other benefits and costs under a firemen’s pension system or systems. The taxes so levied may be collected by such firemen’s pension system or systems and disbursed therefrom by authority of the General Assembly for the purposes therein authorized.

ART. III §10 ¶5 | FUNDING STANDARDS

It shall be the duty of the General Assembly to enact legislation to define funding standards which will assure the actuarial soundness of any retirement or pension system supported wholly or partially from public funds and to control legislative procedures so that no bill or resolution creating or amending any such retirement or pension system shall be passed by the General Assembly without concurrent provisions for funding in accordance with the defined funding standards.

ART. III §10 ¶5-A | LIMITATION ON INVOLUNTARY SEPARATION BENEFITS FOR GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA

Any other provisions of this Constitution to the contrary notwithstanding, no past, present, or future Governor of the State of Georgia who ceases or ceased to hold office as Governor for any reason, except for medical disability, shall receive a retirement benefit based on involuntary separation from employment as a result of ceasing to hold office as Governor. The provisions of any law in conflict with this Paragraph are null and void effective January 1, 1985.

ART. III §10 ¶6 | INVOLUNTARY SEPARATION; PART-TIME SERVICE

(a) Any public retirement or pension system provided for by law in existence prior to January 1, 1985, may be changed by the General Assembly for any one or more of the following purposes:

(1) To redefine involuntary separation from employment; or

(2) To provide additional or revise existing limitations or restrictions on the right to qualify for a retirement benefit based on involuntary separation from employment.

(b) The General Assembly by law may define or redefine part-time service, including but not limited to service as a member of the General Assembly, for the purposes of any public retirement or pension system presently existing or created in the future and may limit or restrict the use of such part-time service as creditable service under any such retirement or pension system.

(c) Any law enacted by the General Assembly pursuant to subparagraph (a) or (b) of this Paragraph may affect persons who are members of public retirement or pension systems on January 1, 1985, and who became members at any time prior to that date.

(d) Any law enacted by the General Assembly pursuant to subparagraph (a) or (b) of this Paragraph shall not be subject to any law controlling legislative procedures for the consideration of retirement or pension bills, including, but not limited to, any limitations on the sessions of the General Assembly at which retirement or pension bills may be introduced.

(e) No public retirement or pension system created on or after January 1, 1985, shall grant any person whose retirement is based on involuntary separation from employment a retirement or pension benefit more favorable than the retirement or pension benefit granted to a person whose separation from employment is voluntary.

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GEORGIA CONSTITUTIONARTICLE III SECTION 10RETIREMENT SYSTEMS

ART. III §10 ¶1 | EXPENDITURE OF PUBLIC FUNDS AUTHORIZED

ART. III §10 ¶2 | INCREASING BENEFITS AUTHORIZED

ART. III §10 ¶3 | RETIREMENT SYSTEMS COVERING EMPLOYEES OF COUNTY BOARDS OF EDUCATION

ART. III §10 ¶4 | FIREMEN’S PENSION SYSTEM

ART. III §10 ¶5 | FUNDING STANDARDS

ART. III §10 ¶5-A | LIMITATION ON INVOLUNTARY SEPARATION BENEFITS FOR GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA

ART. III §10 ¶6 | INVOLUNTARY SEPARATION; PART-TIME SERVICE

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