---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO REPEAL OBSOLETE PROVISIONS OF TITLE 24; TO AMEND CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF TITLE 24 RELATING TO RETIREMENT BENEFITS; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
description: "TO REPEAL OBSOLETE PROVISIONS OF TITLE 24; TO AMEND CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF TITLE 24 RELATING TO RETIREMENT BENEFITS; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 220"
citation: "Arkansas SB 220 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Sample"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-01-31"
last_action: "2019-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3322559d-e2b4-44cd-b24a-d382ab00f763"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "c70d9700c822a5661f896a2c45119fbb40678b0536976862b73b07da733e5cdd"
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 220 (2019) — TO REPEAL OBSOLETE PROVISIONS OF TITLE 24; TO AMEND CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF TITLE 24 RELATING TO RETIREMENT BENEFITS; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

## Version chain

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

1. **Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/Document?type=pdf&chamber=&source=Amendments&bill=SB220-S1&ddBienniumSession=2019%2F2019R)
2. **SB 220** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/SB220.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **77–3** (pass) · lower
- EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED — **71–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- B. Sample — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-31** Filed `introduction`
- **2019-01-31** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC RETIREMENT & SOCIAL SECURITY PROGRAMS-JOINT `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-02-04** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-05** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2019-02-05** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2019-02-05** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-02-07** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-07** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2019-02-07** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2019-02-07** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2019-02-08** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the CALENDAR. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-03-06** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-06** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2019-03-06** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2019-03-06** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2019-03-06** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2019-03-11** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2019-03-11** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-13** Notification that SB220 is now Act 448 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3322559d-e2b4-44cd-b24a-d382ab00f763`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).