---
type: "Bill"
title: "CONCERNING THE TERMINATION OF ACTIVE MEMBERSHIP UNDER THE ARKANSAS TEACHER RETIREMENT SYSTEM; AND AMENDING THE DEFINITION OF \"NORMAL RETIREMENT AGE\"."
description: "CONCERNING THE TERMINATION OF ACTIVE MEMBERSHIP UNDER THE ARKANSAS TEACHER RETIREMENT SYSTEM; AND AMENDING THE DEFINITION OF \"NORMAL RETIREMENT AGE\"."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 174"
citation: "Arkansas SB 174 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Teague"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-21T19:42:02+00:00"
last_action: "2021-03-08T19:04:59+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6f6889c6-6f45-42b9-a7f9-49273c9b8307"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "d7cf7e34f284f7335e29ae0cd72f0317a82b7a21607ed51154f8572ee89323fd"
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 174 (2021) — CONCERNING THE TERMINATION OF ACTIVE MEMBERSHIP UNDER THE ARKANSAS TEACHER RETIREMENT SYSTEM; AND AMENDING THE DEFINITION OF "NORMAL RETIREMENT AGE".

## Version chain

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

1. **Amendment S1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FSB174-S1.pdf)
2. **Amendment S2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FSB174-S2.pdf)
3. **SB 174** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB174.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **92–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Teague — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-21T19:42:02+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-01-21T20:30:27+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC RETIREMENT & SOCIAL SECURITY PROGRAMS-JOINT `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-01-26T14:37:45+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
- **2021-01-26T14:40:14+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2021-01-26T19:29:45+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-01-26T19:30:45+00:00** Re-referred to Joint Committee on Public Retirement and Social Security Programs `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-24T14:34:08+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 2
- **2021-02-24T14:34:18+00:00** Amendment # 2 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2021-02-24T19:23:40+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-02-24T19:24:03+00:00** Re-referred to PUBLIC RETIREMENT & SOCIAL SECURITY PROGRAMS-JOINT `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-01T19:21:52+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-02T19:19:30+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-02T19:20:08+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2021-03-02T21:07:21+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2021-03-02T23:04:30+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the CALENDAR. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-03-03T20:08:55+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-03T20:09:01+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2021-03-03T22:35:07+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2021-03-03T22:35:12+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2021-03-04T19:49:23+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2021-03-04T19:49:30+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-03-08T19:04:59+00:00** Notification that SB174 is now Act 290 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6f6889c6-6f45-42b9-a7f9-49273c9b8307`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).