---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO CLARIFY THE LAW CONCERNING AN ELECTION TO CHANGE ANNUITY OPTIONS WITHIN ONE YEAR OF RETIREMENT UNDER THE ARKANSAS TEACHER RETIREMENT SYSTEM; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
description: "TO CLARIFY THE LAW CONCERNING AN ELECTION TO CHANGE ANNUITY OPTIONS WITHIN ONE YEAR OF RETIREMENT UNDER THE ARKANSAS TEACHER RETIREMENT SYSTEM; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1161"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1161 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["J. Boyd", "K. Moore"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-16T17:09:20+00:00"
last_action: "2025-02-27T23:27:44+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fc8c5160-e553-4344-8a28-70b4836447d0"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "356c847d79a552ff3b7cd57d15f724ca09864584931d7cc5608a2ed882be7854"
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 1161 (2025) — TO CLARIFY THE LAW CONCERNING AN ELECTION TO CHANGE ANNUITY OPTIONS WITHIN ONE YEAR OF RETIREMENT 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 228** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=228.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **HB 1161** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1161.pdf)

## Sponsors

- J. Boyd — primary (person)
- K. Moore — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-16T17:09:20+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-01-16T22:51:12+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`
- **2025-02-18T21:05:53+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-19T20:14:34+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-19T20:14:38+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2025-02-19T22:40:43+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-02-19T22:40:47+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-02-24T20:45:36+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-24T20:45:43+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2025-02-24T20:45:47+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2025-02-24T21:37:53+00:00** Returned from the Senate as passed.
- **2025-02-24T21:37:56+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-02-24T21:37:59+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-02-27T23:27:44+00:00** Notification that HB1161 is now Act 228 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fc8c5160-e553-4344-8a28-70b4836447d0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).