As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 17, 2000

General Electric Company
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

3135 Easton Turnpike
Fairfield, Connecticut 06431
(Address of Principal Executive Offices, including Zip Code)

Various Existing and Future GE or Affiliate Benefit and Compensation Plans
(Full titles of the Plans)

Robert E. Healing
Corporate Counsel
3135 Easton Turnpike
Fairfield, Connecticut 06431
(Name and address of agent for service)

(203) 373-2243
(Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to public:
From time to time following the effectiveness of this registration statement

          This Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement on Form S-8 is being filed for the purpose of adding a signature for a new plan offering GE common stock and plan interests to employees of a GE affiliate.

General Electric Company (the "Company") by this reference hereby incorporates into this Registration Statement the following documents filed by the Company:

1. The Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 1999.
2. The description of the Company's Common Stock contained in the Registration Statement on Form S-4 (File No. 333-30845), including any amendment filed for the purpose of updating such description.

In addition, all documents filed by the Company pursuant to pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered have been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference in this registration statement and to be a part hereof from the date of filing of such documents.

Section 6 of the Company's Certificate of Incorporation, as amended, provides as follows:

Article XI of the Company's By-laws, as amended, provides as follows:

1. The Company shall, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law as the same exists or may hereafter be in effect, indemnify any person who is or was or has agreed to become a director or officer of the Company and who is or was made or threatened to be made a party to or involved in any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative, including an action by or in the right of the Company to procure a judgment in its favor and an action by or in the right of any other corporation, of any type or kind, domestic or foreign, or any partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan or other enterprise, which such person is serving, has served or has agreed to serve in any capacity at the request of the Company, by reason of the fact that he or she is or was or has agreed to become a director or officer of the Company, or is or was serving or has agreed to serve such other corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan or other enterprise in any capacity, against judgments, fines, amounts paid or to be paid in settlement, taxes or penalties, and costs, charges and expenses, including attorney's fees, incurred in connection with such action or proceeding or any appeal therein; provided, however, that no indemnification shall be provided to any such person if a judgment or other final adjudication adverse to the director or officer establishes that (i) his or her acts were committed in bad faith or were the result of active and deliberate dishonesty and, in either case, were material to the cause of action so adjudicated, or (ii) he or she personally gained in fact a financial profit or other advantage to which he or she was not legally entitled. The benefits of this Paragraph a shall extend to the heirs and legal representatives of any person entitled to indemnification under this paragraph.
2. The Company may, to the extent authorized from time to time by the board of Directors, or by a committee comprised of members of the Board or members of management as the Board may designate for such purpose, provide indemnification to employees or agents of the Company who are not officers or directors of the Company with such scope and effect as determined by the Board, or such committee.
3. The Company may indemnify any person to whom the Company is permitted by applicable law to provide indemnification or the advancement of expenses, whether pursuant to rights granted pursuant to, or provided by, the New York Business Corporation Law or other rights created by (i) a resolution of shareholders, (ii) a resolution of directors, or (iii) an agreement providing for such indemnification, it being expressly intended that these By-laws authorize the creation of other rights in any such manner. The right to be indemnified and to the reimbursement or advancement of expenses incurred in defending a proceeding in advance of its final disposition authorized by this Paragraph C shall not be exclusive of any other right which any person may have or hereafter acquire under any statute, provision of the Certificate of Incorporation, by-laws, agreement, vote of shareholders or disinterested directors or otherwise.
4. The right to indemnification conferred by Paragraph A shall, and any indemnification extended under Paragraph B or Paragraph C may, be retroactive to events occurring prior to the adoption of this Article XI, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law.
5. This Article XI may be amended, modified or repealed either by action of the Board of Directors of the Company or by the vote of the shareholders.

See Exhibit Index.

The registrant will submit or has submitted the qualified plans registered hereby, and any amendments thereto, to the Internal Revenue Service in a timely manner and has made or will make all changes required by the IRS in order to qualify the plans.

The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:

          (1) To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to this registration statement:

1. To include any prospectus required by section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act of 1933;
2. To reflect in the prospectus any facts or event arising after the effective date of the registration statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in the registration statement;
3. To include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the registration statement or any material change to such information in the registration statement.

          Provided, however, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) do not apply if the registration statement is on Form S-3, Form S-8, or Form F-3, and the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in periodic reports filed by the registrant pursuant to section 13 or section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that are incorporated by reference in the registration statement.

2. That, for purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.
3. To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the offering.

          The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of the registrant's annual report pursuant to section 13(a) or section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that is incorporated by reference in the registration statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

          Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Act as is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.

The Registrant. Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all the requirements for filing the Amendment No. 1 on Form S-8, and has duly caused this Registration Statement for Various Existing and Future GE or Affiliate Benefit and Compensation Plans on Form S-8 to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the Town of Fairfield, State of Connecticut, on March 17, 2000.

GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY

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By: /s/ Robert E. Healing, Attorney-in-Fact and Corporate Counsel

The Plans.

Various Existing and Future GE and Affiliate Benefit Plans

          Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the trustees (or other persons who administer the plans) have duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the city of Fairfield, State of Connecticut, on March 17, 2000.

By: /s/ Janet Bedol, Attorney-in-Fact and Associate Securities Counsel

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* Filed previously

** Filed electronically herewith.