2020 Georgia Code
Title 47 - Retirement and Pensions
Chapter 19 - State Employees' Assurance Department
§ 47-19-9. Application of the State System of Personnel Administration to Employees of the Department; Payment of Share of Costs

1. The employees of the department shall be governed by such rules of position classification, appointment, promotion, demotion, dismissal, transfer, qualification, compensation, seniority, privileges, tenure, and other employment standards as may now or hereafter be established under Chapter 20 of Title 45.
2. The department shall pay its share of the administrative costs of operating the state system of personnel administration, in the manner prescribed in Code Section 45-20-4.

(Ga. L. 1963, p. 521, §§ 4, 5; Ga. L. 1982, p. 3, § 47; Ga. L. 1983, p. 3, § 36; Ga. L. 2009, p. 752, § 1/SB 98; Ga. L. 2012, p. 413, § 12/HB 805.)

The 2009 amendment, effective July 1, 2009, substituted "State Personnel Administration" for "State Merit System of Personnel Administration" in the middle of subsection (b).

The 2012 amendment, effective July 1, 2012, substituted the present provisions of subsection (b) for the former provisions, which read: "The department shall pay its pro rata share of the administrative costs of operating the State Personnel Administration, in the manner prescribed in paragraph (6) of subsection (b) of Code Section 45-20-4."

- Ga. L. 2012, p. 413, § 1/HB 805, not codified by the General Assembly, provides that: "The purpose of this Act is to make conforming amendments and correct references in Title 47 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to retirement and pensions, relative to the abolition of the State Personnel Administration and the transfer of certain functions of such agency to the Department of Administrative Services as provided by a separate Act." The separate Act referred to is Ga. L. 2012, p. 446/HB 642, which became effective July 1, 2012, and which provides for the abolition of the State Personnel Administration and the transfer of functions.

Ga. L. 2012, p. 413, § 13/HB 805, not codified by the General Assembly, provides that: "This Act shall become effective on July 1, 2012, only if an Act abolishing the State Personnel Administration and providing for the transfer of certain functions of such agency to the Department of Administrative Services is enacted and becomes effective on that same date; otherwise, this Act shall not become effective and shall stand repealed on July 1, 2012." Ga. L. 2012, p. 446/HB 642, effective July 1, 2012, provides for the abolition of the State Personnel Administration and the transfer of functions.

RESEARCH REFERENCES

Am. Jur. 2d.

- 15A Am. Jur. 2d, Civil Service, § 1 et seq. 63C Am. Jur. 2d, Public Officers and Employees, §§ 38, 86.

- 67 C.J.S., Officers and Public Employees, §§ 46, 63 et seq.