---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING ELIGIBILITY FOR A DEPENDENT CHILD ANNUITY UNDER THE ARKANSAS TEACHER RETIREMENT SYSTEM; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
description: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING ELIGIBILITY FOR A DEPENDENT CHILD ANNUITY UNDER THE ARKANSAS TEACHER RETIREMENT SYSTEM; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1316"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1316 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["S. Smith"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-30"
last_action: "2019-02-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d2ecccc1-2dbe-4e3d-9c39-39fff3d4d5f7"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "edf7ea597e21c3cfbd85c208f96d8189856951d548ebc749224e15f546ba16dd"
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 1316 (2019) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING ELIGIBILITY FOR A DEPENDENT CHILD ANNUITY UNDER THE ARKANSAS TEACHER RETIREMENT SYSTEM; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

## Version chain

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

1. **HB 1316** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/HB1316.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **95–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- S. Smith — 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`
- **2019-02-11** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-13** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-13** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2019-02-13** Received from the House.
- **2019-02-13** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-02-19** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-19** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2019-02-19** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2019-02-19** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2019-02-19** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2019-02-20** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2019-02-26** Notification that HB1316 is now Act 210 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d2ecccc1-2dbe-4e3d-9c39-39fff3d4d5f7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).