---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE ELIGIBILITY OF A SURVIVING SPOUSE FOR SURVIVOR ANNUITY BENEFITS UNDER THE ARKANSAS TEACHER RETIREMENT SYSTEM; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
description: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE ELIGIBILITY OF A SURVIVING SPOUSE FOR SURVIVOR ANNUITY BENEFITS UNDER THE ARKANSAS TEACHER RETIREMENT SYSTEM; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1156"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1156 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["K. Hammer", "Warren"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-16T16:28:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-02-27T23:27:21+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7dd399ac-0974-4860-b26e-807d98d07baf"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "57584313ed999daea2223400614fee99135085d71620dff882616a6d07ec0faf"
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 1156 (2025) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE ELIGIBILITY OF A SURVIVING SPOUSE FOR SURVIVOR ANNUITY BENEFITS UNDER THE ARKANSAS TEACHER 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 224** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=224.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **HB 1156** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1156.pdf)

## Sponsors

- K. Hammer — primary (person)
- Warren — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-16T16:28:00+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-01-16T22:49:52+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`
- **2025-02-18T21:05:06+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-19T20:07:16+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-19T20:07:20+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2025-02-19T22:39:23+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-02-19T22:39:30+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-02-24T20:33:27+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-24T20:33:32+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2025-02-24T20:33:36+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2025-02-24T21:36:23+00:00** Returned from the Senate as passed.
- **2025-02-24T21:36:25+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-02-24T21:36:39+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-02-27T23:27:21+00:00** Notification that HB1156 is now Act 224 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7dd399ac-0974-4860-b26e-807d98d07baf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).