---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE LAW TO CLARIFY WHICH MUNICIPALITIES MAY ESTABLISH RETIREMENT BENEFITS FOR MUNICIPAL GOVERNING BODIES."
description: "TO AMEND THE LAW TO CLARIFY WHICH MUNICIPALITIES MAY ESTABLISH RETIREMENT BENEFITS FOR MUNICIPAL GOVERNING BODIES."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 1303"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1303 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["J. English", "Wing"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-01-26T21:23:39+00:00"
last_action: "2023-04-04T15:01:13+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3eb402af-18f5-4175-999b-90295e33714d"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "4e3829e15d9d255de0aaca1f596237233132a6f52c43652c6163eac9fb522d3a"
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 1303 (2023) — TO AMEND THE LAW TO CLARIFY WHICH MUNICIPALITIES MAY ESTABLISH RETIREMENT BENEFITS FOR MUNICIPAL GOVERNING BODIES.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 437** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2023R%2FPublic%2F&file=437.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2023%2F2023R)
2. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2023R%2FPublic%2FHB1303-H1.pdf)
3. **HB 1303** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2023/2023R/Bills/HB1303.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **89–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- J. English — primary (person)
- Wing — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-26T21:23:39+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2023-01-26T22:51:50+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`
- **2023-03-27T15:52:52+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-28T13:30:05+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2023-03-28T13:30:08+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2023-03-28T16:19:43+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2023-03-29T19:03:08+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-03-29T23:25:18+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2023-03-29T23:25:22+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-03-30T22:43:38+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-03-30T22:43:41+00:00** Returned to the House as Passed.
- **2023-03-31T02:06:19+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2023-03-31T02:06:21+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2023-03-31T14:14:27+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2023-04-04T15:01:13+00:00** Notification that HB1303 is now Act 437 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3eb402af-18f5-4175-999b-90295e33714d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).