---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING MEMBER CONTRIBUTIONS, SERVICE CREDIT, CORRECTION OF ERRORS, AND TERMINATION OF MEMBERSHIP UNDER THE ARKANSAS TEACHER RETIREMENT SYSTEM; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
description: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING MEMBER CONTRIBUTIONS, SERVICE CREDIT, CORRECTION OF ERRORS, AND TERMINATION OF MEMBERSHIP UNDER THE ARKANSAS TEACHER RETIREMENT SYSTEM; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1340"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1340 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Evans", "L. Eads"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-28T20:03:27+00:00"
last_action: "2021-03-01T19:05:28+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/43d22843-0a62-4bb1-8e32-7734a5d44597"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "e55d6036ef48ac35238af7c0368e4e6b2f1d91bb07461da400d410ab0ef22c6c"
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 1340 (2021) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING MEMBER CONTRIBUTIONS, SERVICE CREDIT, CORRECTION OF ERRORS, AND TERMINATION OF MEMBERSHIP 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 1340** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1340.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Evans — primary (person)
- L. Eads — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-28T20:03:27+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-01-28T22:31:46+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`
- **2021-02-22T17:08:31+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-23T19:13:09+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-23T19:13:11+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-02-23T21:25:09+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-02-23T21:25:26+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-02-24T21:15:11+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-24T21:15:20+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-02-24T21:15:29+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-02-24T22:50:36+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-02-24T22:50:38+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-02-25T14:50:41+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-03-01T19:05:28+00:00** Notification that HB1340 is now Act 190 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/43d22843-0a62-4bb1-8e32-7734a5d44597`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).