---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE DEFINITIONS OF \"NONSTATE EMPLOYEES\" AND \"PARTICIPATING PUBLIC EMPLOYER\" AS THOSE DEFINITIONS APPLY TO THE ARKANSAS PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM; AND TO DEFINE \"BORDER MUNICIPAL AIRPORT AUTHORITY\"."
description: "TO AMEND THE DEFINITIONS OF \"NONSTATE EMPLOYEES\" AND \"PARTICIPATING PUBLIC EMPLOYER\" AS THOSE DEFINITIONS APPLY TO THE ARKANSAS PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM; AND TO DEFINE \"BORDER MUNICIPAL AIRPORT AUTHORITY\"."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1282"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1282 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Sample", "Warren"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-26T22:23:15+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-01T17:22:03+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/32a8a699-3392-4a93-9f30-c2eb6297c383"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "7ece54e60f044e72df388691672584be2c3cf08e44900f02cf1bb9869a4c1951"
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 1282 (2021) — TO AMEND THE DEFINITIONS OF "NONSTATE EMPLOYEES" AND "PARTICIPATING PUBLIC EMPLOYER" AS THOSE DEFINITIONS APPLY TO THE ARKANSAS PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM; AND TO DEFINE "BORDER MUNICIPAL AIRPORT AUTHORITY".

## Version chain

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

1. **HB 1282** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1282.pdf)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- B. Sample — primary (person)
- Warren — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-26T22:23:15+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-01-27T22:29:51+00:00** 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`
- **2021-03-22T15:13:18+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-23T20:51:51+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-29T19:04:28+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-03-29T19:04:41+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-03-30T18:47:50+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-30T18:47:52+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-03-30T19:50:01+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-03-30T19:50:04+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-03-31T13:18:53+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-04-01T17:22:03+00:00** Notification that HB1282 is now Act 519 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/32a8a699-3392-4a93-9f30-c2eb6297c383`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).