---
type: "Bill"
title: "CONCERNING THE COLLECTION OF DEBTS AND OVERPAYMENTS BY THE ARKANSAS PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM; TO AMEND THE DEFINITION OF \"CLAIMANT AGENCY\" AND \"DEBT\"; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
description: "CONCERNING THE COLLECTION OF DEBTS AND OVERPAYMENTS BY THE ARKANSAS PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM; TO AMEND THE DEFINITION OF \"CLAIMANT AGENCY\" AND \"DEBT\"; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1352"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1352 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Warren"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-29T20:35:59+00:00"
last_action: "2021-03-08T19:04:53+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d77949c2-c4e0-4519-9b06-97811cad8a98"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "861db6cb6ff0902493093b06b704dca160f38fc8fc3c9a91a2c9b45c0f82ff10"
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 1352 (2021) — CONCERNING THE COLLECTION OF DEBTS AND OVERPAYMENTS BY THE ARKANSAS PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM; TO AMEND THE DEFINITION OF "CLAIMANT AGENCY" AND "DEBT"; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

## 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%2FHB1352-H1.pdf)
2. **HB 1352** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1352.pdf)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Warren — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-29T20:35:59+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-02-01T21:50:16+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`
- **2021-02-25T14:37:30+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-02-25T14:37:32+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-02-25T17:13:44+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-01T17:33:00+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-02T19:27:30+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-02T19:27:32+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-03-02T20:38:49+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-03-02T20:38:56+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-03-03T20:08:33+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-03T20:08:34+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-03-03T20:08:35+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-03-03T22:04:48+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-03-03T22:04:52+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-03-04T14:52:05+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-03-08T19:04:53+00:00** Notification that HB1352 is now Act 281 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d77949c2-c4e0-4519-9b06-97811cad8a98`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).