Legislation: batch A — AK AL AR AZ CO CT DE GA HI IA ID

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

legislation/us/states/ar/2019/sb-72.md

@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING PAID AND VOLUNTEER SERVICE, SERVICE CREDIT, DISABILITY RETIREMENT, AND TERMINATION OF COVERED EMPLOYMENT UNDER THE ARKANSAS LOCAL POLICE AND FIRE RETIREMENT SYSTEM; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
+description: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING PAID AND VOLUNTEER SERVICE, SERVICE CREDIT, DISABILITY RETIREMENT, AND TERMINATION OF COVERED EMPLOYMENT UNDER THE ARKANSAS LOCAL POLICE AND FIRE RETIREMENT SYSTEM; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
+legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "SB 72"
+citation: "Arkansas SB 72 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["B. Sample"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-01-10"
+last_action: "2019-02-20"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4e1ded1e-fdb0-4790-af36-830b4ff211b9"
+source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
+source_hash: "ba465b6e6e4d70d3248ada81cb455402de2b1d1171152c6559389476f6511be7"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ar"]
+---
+
+# Arkansas SB 72 (2019) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING PAID AND VOLUNTEER SERVICE, SERVICE CREDIT, DISABILITY RETIREMENT, AND TERMINATION OF COVERED EMPLOYMENT UNDER THE ARKANSAS LOCAL POLICE AND FIRE RETIREMENT SYSTEM; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **SB 72** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/SB72.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **77–0** (pass) · lower
+- Read the third time and passed. — **34–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- B. Sample — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-01-10** Filed `introduction`
+- **2019-01-14** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC RETIREMENT & SOCIAL SECURITY PROGRAMS-JOINT `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-11** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-02-12** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2019-02-12** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
+- **2019-02-12** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
+- **2019-02-12** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
+- **2019-02-12** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the CALENDAR. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2019-02-14** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2019-02-14** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
+- **2019-02-14** Returned To the Senate as passed.
+- **2019-02-14** Returned from the House as passed.
+- **2019-02-14** ORDERED ENROLLED
+- **2019-02-18** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
+- **2019-02-18** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-02-20** Notification that SB72 is now Act 178 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4e1ded1e-fdb0-4790-af36-830b4ff211b9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).
+