---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE FORFEITURE OF RETIREMENT BENEFITS BY A JUDGE OR JUSTICE WHO IS SEVENTY (70) YEARS OF AGE."
description: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE FORFEITURE OF RETIREMENT BENEFITS BY A JUDGE OR JUSTICE WHO IS SEVENTY (70) YEARS OF AGE."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1219"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1219 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hillman"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-01-22"
last_action: "2019-04-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e97e6f21-94ac-4482-99a6-c4c9ee218260"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "93aa19982a6156f8e92310538e78978a86848f2f191bae4c2bed07f2c7f9bf9a"
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 1219 (2019) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE FORFEITURE OF RETIREMENT BENEFITS BY A JUDGE OR JUSTICE WHO IS SEVENTY (70) YEARS OF AGE.

## Version chain

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

1. **HB 1219** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/HB1219.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **19–11** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and failed. — **17–9** (fail) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **75–6** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hillman — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-22** Filed `introduction`
- **2019-01-22** 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`
- **2019-03-18** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-19** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-19** Received from the House.
- **2019-03-19** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-04-01** Read the third time and failed. `reading-3`
- **2019-04-01** Motion to Expunge the Vote
- **2019-04-01** The vote by which HB1219 Failed to Pass was expunged.
- **2019-04-02** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-02** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2019-04-02** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2019-04-02** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2019-04-03** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2019-04-05** Notification that HB1219 is now Act 753 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e97e6f21-94ac-4482-99a6-c4c9ee218260`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).