2022 Georgia Code
Title 47 - Retirement and Pensions
Chapter 1 - General Provisions
Article 1 - In General
§ 47-1-13.1. Annual Compensation Limits in Determining Benefits or Contributions Due

1. As used in this Code section, the term:
   1. “Annual compensation” means compensation during the determination period. Such term shall include any cost-of-living adjustment in effect for a calendar year if the determination period begins with or within such calendar year.
   2. “Determination period” means the plan year or such other consecutive 12 month period over which compensation is otherwise determined under the public retirement or pension system.
2. The annual compensation of a plan member during any plan year beginning on or after January 1, 2002, which exceeds $200,000.00, as adjusted for cost-of-living increases in accordance with Section 401(a)(17)(B) of the federal Internal Revenue Code, shall not be taken into account in determining benefits or contributions due from the public retirement or pension system for any plan year. If the determination period consists of fewer than 12 months, the annual compensation limit shall be an amount equal to the otherwise applicable annual compensation limit multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of months in the short determination period and the denominator of which is 12. If the compensation for any prior determination period is taken into account in determining a plan member’s contributions or benefits for the current plan year, the compensation for such prior determination period shall be subject to the applicable annual compensation limit in effect for the prior period.
3. The annual compensation of a plan member during any plan year beginning on and after January 1, 1996, and before January 1, 2002, which exceeds $150,000.00, as indexed as provided in Section 401(a)(17)(B) of the federal Internal Revenue Code, shall be disregarded for purposes of computing contributions to or benefits due from the public retirement or pension system.

History. Code 1981, § 47-1-13.1 , enacted by Ga. L. 2009, p. 947, § 3/HB 202; Ga. L. 2010, p. 1207, § 64/SB 436.

Effective date. —

This Code section became effective May 11, 2009.

The 2010 amendment, effective July 1, 2010, substituted “section, the” for “section the” in the introductory paragraph of subsection (a) and substituted “cost-of-living” for “cost of living” in the second sentence of paragraph (a)(1).

Editor’s notes.

Ga. L. 2010, p. 1207, § 1, not codified by the General Assembly, provides that: “The intent of this Act is to repeal obsolete and inoperative provisions and to make certain stylistic corrections in Title 47 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated. Nothing in this Act shall deny, abridge, increase, renew, revive, or on any way affect any right, benefit, option, credit, or election to which any person was entitled pursuant to such title on June 30, 2010, and the board of trustees of each public retirement system is authorized and directed to provide by regulation for the continuation of any such right, benefit, option, credit, or election not otherwise covered in this Act; provided, however, that any such right, benefit, option, credit, or election shall be subject to the statutory provisions in effect on June 30, 2010.”

Ga. L. 2010, p. 1207, § 67, not codified by the General Assembly, provides that: “In the event of an irreconcilable conflict between a provision of Sections 62 through 64 of this Act and a provision of another Act enacted at the 2010 regular session of the General Assembly, the provision of such other Act shall control over this Act to the extent of the conflict.”