---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE PAYABLE RATE OF AN ANNUAL RETIREMENT BENEFIT RECEIVED BY A RETIRED MAYOR."
description: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE PAYABLE RATE OF AN ANNUAL RETIREMENT BENEFIT RECEIVED BY A RETIRED MAYOR."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1298"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1298 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["J. Mayberry"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-30"
last_action: "2019-04-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/815d9c0e-72d1-40c3-906e-4f428d65e313"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "0e281eca21e01eabb5fe82b0c312919f3f92ffd3daea1bb30894fba221e3817f"
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 HB 1298 (2019) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE PAYABLE RATE OF AN ANNUAL RETIREMENT BENEFIT RECEIVED BY A RETIRED MAYOR.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/Document?type=pdf&chamber=&source=Amendments&bill=HB1298-H1&ddBienniumSession=2019%2F2019R)
2. **HB 1298** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/HB1298.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **89–4** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- J. Mayberry — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2019-01-30** Filed `introduction`
- **2019-01-30** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on PUBLIC RETIREMENT & SOCIAL SECURITY PROGRAMS-JOINT `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2019-02-19** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2019-02-19** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2019-02-19** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-03-26** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2019-03-26** Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2019-03-26** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-04-01** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-04-03** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-03** Received from the House.
- **2019-04-03** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-04-08** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-08** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2019-04-08** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2019-04-08** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2019-04-09** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2019-04-12** Notification that HB1298 is now Act 948 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/815d9c0e-72d1-40c3-906e-4f428d65e313`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).