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Senate committee advances bill to double death indemnity for public school employees to $150,000
Summary
A Senate committee advanced House Bill 105, which would raise the Georgia public school employee death indemnity from $75,000 to $150,000 and use existing indemnification trust funds to pay claims, committee members heard.
A Georgia Senate committee on an unspecified date considered House Bill 105, a measure to raise the death indemnity paid to families of public school employees killed in the line of duty from $75,000 to $150,000.
The bill’s sponsor on behalf of Gov. Brian Kemp, Senator Bo Hatchett, told the committee the change updates a benefit that “has remained at $75,000 since 02/2001.” He said, “What this bill does is it raises the indemnification for a public school employee from 75,000 to 150,000, in…
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