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Georgia House passes bills on DA retirement age, 20-year utility contracts, traffic-stop guidance and vehicle title transfers
Summary
The Georgia House on Feb. 19 passed several bills on retirement eligibility for district attorneys, extended allowable municipal electric contracts to 20 years, codified best practices for traffic stops, and streamlined title transfers for decedents’ vehicles; votes were recorded on the floor for each measure.
The Georgia House on Thursday passed a package of measures that its leadership said clarify retirement rules, extend utility contract terms and ease vehicle-title transfers for inheritors.
House Bill 10‑20, introduced as a change to the state judicial retirement rules, was presented as aligning district attorneys’ retirement eligibility with recent adjustments to the judicial code. The bill’s presenter told members the measure provides for payment of monthly retirement benefits for creditable service as a district attorney at age 65. The clerk announced the vote: yays 164, nays 0; the measure received the requisite constitutional majority and was declared passed.
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