---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE MARRIAGE ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENT FOR SURVIVOR ANNUITY BENEFITS UNDER THE ARKANSAS STATE HIGHWAY EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
description: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE MARRIAGE ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENT FOR SURVIVOR ANNUITY BENEFITS UNDER THE ARKANSAS STATE HIGHWAY EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 105"
citation: "Arkansas SB 105 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Sample", "Warren"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-12T18:57:22+00:00"
last_action: "2021-02-23T22:10:43+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/405e9cd2-fc9b-4389-9554-301fe7e2b794"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "999f3fb869352b40fc6ebedfb0efdc4fefb8dbff36804836a2d3fb1aee3a9925"
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 SB 105 (2021) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE MARRIAGE ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENT FOR SURVIVOR ANNUITY BENEFITS UNDER THE ARKANSAS STATE HIGHWAY EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

## Version chain

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

1. **SB 105** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB105.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-12T18:57:22+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-01-12T20:48:07+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC RETIREMENT & SOCIAL SECURITY PROGRAMS-JOINT `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-08T19:50:47+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-09T19:24:46+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-09T19:25:02+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-02-09T19:25:13+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2021-02-09T22:11:28+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2021-02-09T22:23:10+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the CALENDAR. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-02-10T20:23:58+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-10T20:24:01+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-02-10T20:24:07+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2021-02-10T21:35:18+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2021-02-10T21:35:25+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2021-02-23T01:03:28+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2021-02-23T01:03:33+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-02-23T22:10:43+00:00** Notification that SB105 is now Act 139 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/405e9cd2-fc9b-4389-9554-301fe7e2b794`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).