---
type: "Bill"
title: "CONCERNING VOLUNTARY RETIREMENT, DEFERRED RETIREMENT, EMPLOYER CONTRIBUTIONS, THE BENEFIT MULTIPLIER, THE ELECTION TO PARTICIPATE, THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE STATE POLICE RETIREMENT SYSTEM, AND SYSTEM COSTS."
description: "CONCERNING VOLUNTARY RETIREMENT, DEFERRED RETIREMENT, EMPLOYER CONTRIBUTIONS, THE BENEFIT MULTIPLIER, THE ELECTION TO PARTICIPATE, THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE STATE POLICE RETIREMENT SYSTEM, AND SYSTEM COSTS."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1343"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1343 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rapert", "Warren"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-28T22:18:00+00:00"
last_action: "2021-03-23T20:07:19+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0a41f6cb-f120-4173-a732-02527674129f"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "084f19e381da588cbde502a7a0a894b5970c96c4d08b0857a26701f6969d367a"
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 1343 (2021) — CONCERNING VOLUNTARY RETIREMENT, DEFERRED RETIREMENT, EMPLOYER CONTRIBUTIONS, THE BENEFIT MULTIPLIER, THE ELECTION TO PARTICIPATE, THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE STATE POLICE RETIREMENT SYSTEM, AND SYSTEM COSTS.

## 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%2FHB1343-H1.pdf)
2. **HB 1343** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1343.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Rapert — primary (person)
- Warren — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-28T22:18:00+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-02-01T21:48:08+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`
- **2021-03-15T16:20:55+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-16T13:40:41+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-03-16T13:41:06+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-16T16:21:12+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-17T18:17:13+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-17T22:41:00+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-03-17T22:41:10+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-03-18T21:01:46+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-18T21:02:16+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-03-18T23:44:14+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-03-18T23:44:18+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-03-19T18:44:55+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-03-23T20:07:19+00:00** Notification that HB1343 is now Act 415 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0a41f6cb-f120-4173-a732-02527674129f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).