---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE LAW REGARDING THE ARKANSAS PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
description: "TO AMEND THE LAW REGARDING THE ARKANSAS PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 217"
citation: "Arkansas SB 217 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Sample"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-31"
last_action: "2019-04-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f3e35565-062b-4c27-9acf-586c0fb6b5d0"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "ece16cfeeb608511576cb3c6b1c080241a7f13a56f30a340582a65eb5275e367"
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 217 (2019) — TO AMEND THE LAW REGARDING THE ARKANSAS PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

## 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=SB217-S1&ddBienniumSession=2019%2F2019R)
2. **SB 217** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/SB217.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **89–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- B. Sample — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-31** Filed `introduction`
- **2019-01-31** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC RETIREMENT & SOCIAL SECURITY PROGRAMS-JOINT `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-19** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
- **2019-03-19** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2019-03-19** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-03-19** Re-referred to PUBLIC RETIREMENT & SOCIAL SECURITY PROGRAMS-JOINT `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-25** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-26** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-26** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2019-03-26** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2019-03-26** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2019-03-26** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the CALENDAR. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-03-27** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-27** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2019-03-27** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2019-03-27** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2019-03-27** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2019-03-28** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2019-03-28** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-04-02** Notification that SB217 is now Act 624 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f3e35565-062b-4c27-9acf-586c0fb6b5d0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).