---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO CLARIFY THE DEFINITION OF \"ELIGIBLE INACTIVE RETIREE\"; TO MODIFY THE ELIGIBILITY OF RETIREES TO PARTICIPATE IN THE STATE AND PUBLIC SCHOOL LIFE AND HEALTH INSURANCE PROGRAM; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
description: "TO CLARIFY THE DEFINITION OF \"ELIGIBLE INACTIVE RETIREE\"; TO MODIFY THE ELIGIBILITY OF RETIREES TO PARTICIPATE IN THE STATE AND PUBLIC SCHOOL LIFE AND HEALTH INSURANCE PROGRAM; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2022F"
identifier: "SB 85"
citation: "Arkansas SB 85 (2022F)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Evans", "Irvin"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-02-15T21:33:01+00:00"
last_action: "2022-03-02T18:53:39+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2378c6ec-629c-4ed9-8a2d-365d8de29946"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "96622a0ba328c1e1b25676832d29aae37569a3e471c984226423fe7ad39bcb1d"
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 85 (2022F) — TO CLARIFY THE DEFINITION OF "ELIGIBLE INACTIVE RETIREE"; TO MODIFY THE ELIGIBILITY OF RETIREES TO PARTICIPATE IN THE STATE AND PUBLIC SCHOOL LIFE AND HEALTH INSURANCE PROGRAM; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 107** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2022F%2FPublic%2F&file=107.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2021%2F2022F)
2. **SB 85** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2021/2022F/Bills/SB85.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **95–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Evans — primary (person)
- Irvin — primary (person)
- B. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- B. Sample — cosponsor (person)
- Beaty Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Beck — cosponsor (person)
- Beckham — cosponsor (person)
- Bragg — cosponsor (person)
- Brown — cosponsor (person)
- C. Cooper — cosponsor (person)
- C. Fite — cosponsor (person)
- Crawford — cosponsor (person)
- D. Garner — cosponsor (person)
- D. Sullivan — cosponsor (person)
- D. Whitaker — cosponsor (person)
- Dalby — cosponsor (person)
- Dotson — cosponsor (person)
- Elliott — cosponsor (person)
- Ennett — cosponsor (person)
- Eubanks — cosponsor (person)
- Flippo — cosponsor (person)
- G. Leding — cosponsor (person)
- Gilmore — cosponsor (person)
- Godfrey — cosponsor (person)
- Hawks — cosponsor (person)
- Hickey — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Hollowell — cosponsor (person)
- Hudson — cosponsor (person)
- J. Dismang — cosponsor (person)
- J. English — cosponsor (person)
- Jett — cosponsor (person)
- K. Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
- K. Ingram — cosponsor (person)
- L. Chesterfield — cosponsor (person)
- Love — cosponsor (person)
- M. Berry — cosponsor (person)
- M. Davis — cosponsor (person)
- M. Hodges — cosponsor (person)
- Maddox — cosponsor (person)
- McCullough — cosponsor (person)
- Nicks — cosponsor (person)
- Perry — cosponsor (person)
- Rice — cosponsor (person)
- S. Berry — cosponsor (person)
- S. Meeks — cosponsor (person)
- S. Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Scott — cosponsor (person)
- Shepherd — cosponsor (person)
- Speaks — cosponsor (person)
- Vaught — cosponsor (person)
- Wardlaw — cosponsor (person)
- Warren — cosponsor (person)
- Wing — cosponsor (person)
- Wooten — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-02-15T21:33:01+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2022-02-15T22:15:21+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-02-16T20:42:07+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-17T17:17:47+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-17T17:17:54+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2022-02-17T17:18:03+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2022-02-17T17:42:48+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2022-02-17T17:58:28+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2022-02-22T21:02:32+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-23T19:26:03+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-23T19:26:09+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2022-02-23T19:26:18+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2022-02-28T18:08:24+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2022-02-28T18:08:36+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2022-02-28T18:45:51+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2022-02-28T18:45:55+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-02T18:53:39+00:00** Notification that SB85 is now Act 107 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2378c6ec-629c-4ed9-8a2d-365d8de29946`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).