---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO INCLUDE EMPLOYEES OF A METROPOLITAN PORT AUTHORITY IN THE MEMBERSHIP OF THE ARKANSAS EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM."
description: "TO INCLUDE EMPLOYEES OF A METROPOLITAN PORT AUTHORITY IN THE MEMBERSHIP OF THE ARKANSAS EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1068"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1068 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["D. Wallace", "M. McElroy"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2024-12-17T14:45:23+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-18T18:53:01+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/83b35102-18ab-4a18-8b1d-7e1f39e70c95"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "2fd5de1ee10ba083d71e4253d2577f6473ac1febb5970da82e8a6023b00da96b"
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 1068 (2025) — TO INCLUDE EMPLOYEES OF A METROPOLITAN PORT AUTHORITY IN THE MEMBERSHIP OF THE ARKANSAS EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 311** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=311.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1068-H1.pdf)
3. **HB 1068** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1068.pdf)

## Sponsors

- D. Wallace — primary (person)
- M. McElroy — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-12-17T14:45:23+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-01-13T21:13:53+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`
- **2025-03-04T22:24:32+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-05T14:29:55+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2025-03-05T14:29:59+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-05T17:47:12+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-03-06T19:55:17+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-06T23:10:02+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-03-06T23:10:07+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-03-11T19:49:13+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-11T19:49:22+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2025-03-11T21:35:01+00:00** Returned from the Senate as passed.
- **2025-03-11T21:35:03+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-03-12T12:59:35+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-03-18T18:53:01+00:00** Notification that HB1068 is now Act 311 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/83b35102-18ab-4a18-8b1d-7e1f39e70c95`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).