---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING ANNUITIES UNDER THE ARKANSAS LOCAL POLICE AND FIRE RETIREMENT SYSTEM; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
description: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING ANNUITIES UNDER THE ARKANSAS LOCAL POLICE AND FIRE RETIREMENT SYSTEM; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 1260"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1260 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["L. Johnson"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-01-25T23:02:33+00:00"
last_action: "2023-04-11T16:31:49+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dd56bddb-7f81-46a3-9403-319fa86ed622"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "5b318f49b66b89eef58eaeaf9dd10bddd20af426bf559f149cb24d17b4164958"
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 1260 (2023) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING ANNUITIES UNDER THE ARKANSAS LOCAL POLICE AND FIRE RETIREMENT SYSTEM; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 536** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2023R%2FPublic%2F&file=536.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2023%2F2023R)
2. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2023R%2FPublic%2FHB1260-H1.pdf)
3. **HB 1260** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2023/2023R/Bills/HB1260.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **93–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **31–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- L. Johnson — primary (person)
- Hawk — cosponsor (person)
- Maddox — cosponsor (person)
- Vaught — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-25T23:02:33+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2023-01-26T22:37:52+00:00** 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`
- **2023-03-13T13:32:54+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2023-03-13T13:32:56+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2023-03-13T15:35:32+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2023-03-27T15:53:21+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-28T19:13:39+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-03-28T19:13:41+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2023-03-28T22:17:45+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2023-03-28T22:20:02+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-04-05T22:04:26+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-04-05T22:04:34+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2023-04-06T00:13:39+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2023-04-06T00:13:41+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2023-04-06T14:54:27+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2023-04-11T16:31:49+00:00** Notification that HB1260 is now Act 536 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/dd56bddb-7f81-46a3-9403-319fa86ed622`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).