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Senate committee sends bill to actuarial study to loosen return-to-work rules for retired teachers
Summary
A Georgia Senate committee voted to send Senate Bill 150 to actuarial study after a hearing in which sponsors and stakeholders said the change would help fill teacher shortages by allowing more retired educators to return to the classroom under looser rules.
Senate Bill 150, sponsored by Sen. Gary Hickman, was sent to actuarial study after a committee hearing in which lawmakers and education stakeholders debated lowering retirement eligibility and shortening the required break in service for retired teachers who return to work.
At the hearing, Senator Gary Hickman, sponsor of SB 150, said the proposal responds to statewide staffing shortages: “We got a teacher shortage, a huge teacher shortage.” Hickman described the bill as a temporary measure and said it includes a sunset: “The sunset provision is 06/30/2034.”
The bill would lower the service-years eligibility for retirement-based return-to-work from 30 years to 25 years, and reduce the required break in service before a retiree may return from 12 months to 60 days. The bill explicitly excludes…
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