Committee hears plan to exclude part-time students from state retirement and urgent resolution urging Congress to balance budget

An unidentified presenter told a Georgia House committee that HP 11 13 (LC 560501) would amend the state defined-contribution plan to exclude part-time students, extending an existing exclusion that already applies to full-time students.

The presenter said the change is primarily administrative and intended to align the plan with student employment realities. When Leader Lou Huegley asked whether the exclusion would cover work-study students, the presenter replied, "Yes, ma'am. That's exactly right," clarifying that positions such as work-study would be excluded under the proposal.

The same presenter also described HR 1113 (LC 650023), which the transcript identifies as an "urgent resolution for the Congress of the United States to come up with a plan to balance the federal budget within 10 years." Framing the measure as a call for state leadership, the presenter said, "inflation is roiling every family in America today," and urged the committee to support a measure that could encourage other states and Congress to act.

Committee members did not vote on HP 11 13 or HR 1113 in the transcript. The presenter characterized the retirement bill as a limited administrative change and described the resolution as symbolic pressure on federal lawmakers; no fiscal analysis, target savings, or implementation timetable for the retirement-plan change was provided in the discussion.

What happens next: The committee later set a calendar for several bills to be considered that day; the transcript does not record a committee vote on HP 11 13 or a formal referral. Further committee action or a recorded vote on these two items was not specified in the record.

Quotation attribution: Direct quotes in this article are attributed to an unidentified presenter listed in the committee transcript as Speaker 6.