---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE CONCERNING THE ARKANSAS PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM."
description: "TO AMEND PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE CONCERNING THE ARKANSAS PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1298"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1298 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Sample", "Warren"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-26T23:05:53+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-13T16:21:29+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/77e9976d-97dd-4f6f-95ef-d5c679cd95bd"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "5fa23de4dd823f8a939498f0583f91d6a663b2157c122eb8250151caf59761aa"
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 (2021) — TO AMEND PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE CONCERNING THE ARKANSAS PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM.

## Version chain

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

1. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FHB1298-H1.pdf)
2. **HB 1298** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1298.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **94–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-26T23:05:53+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-01-27T22:34:11+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`
- **2021-04-05T17:12:45+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-06T13:29:45+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-04-06T13:29:48+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-04-06T15:33:15+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-04-07T18:24:55+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-07T22:00:20+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-04-07T22:00:41+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-04-08T19:17:01+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-08T19:17:11+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-04-08T20:25:29+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-08T20:25:30+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-04-09T13:32:36+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-04-13T16:21:29+00:00** Notification that HB1298 is now Act 686 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/77e9976d-97dd-4f6f-95ef-d5c679cd95bd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).